Simone de Colle

Simone de Colle is Associate Professor of Business Ethics and Strategy. He has over twenty years of international experience in research, teaching and consultancy on business ethics, corporate social responsibility and sustainability management. He has taught courses from undergraduate degree to masters level on these topics in Italy (Universities of Verona,Torino, LIUC-Castellanza, Bocconi and Milan-Statale), Switzerland (University of Geneva), Ireland (Dublin City University), France (GEM-Grenoble; IÉSEG Paris), Germany (University of Applied Sciences, Kempten), Austria (University of Salzburg), Slovenia (IEDC School of Management, Bled), United States (University of Virginia) and Vietnam (CFVG Hanoi and CFVG Ho Chi Minh City). In 2010 he completed his PhD in Management and Business Ethics at the Darden School of Business, University of Virginia, supervised by R. Edward Freeman, a world-leading author in the field of stakeholder theory. Since then he has regularly been a Research Visiting Scholar at the Darden School, with some twenty publications including four joint articles in the Journal of Business Ethics and many international keynotes and other presentations. He is a co-author of Stakeholder Theory: The State of the Art, published by Cambridge University Press in 2010. In 1998 he founded with Lorenzo Sacconi the Q-RES Project at the LIUC University of Castellanza and co-authored in 2002 the Q-RES Guidelines for Management. He currently lives between Paris and Verona, his home town.