Giuseppe Soda

Giuseppe “beppe” Soda is a Full Professor of Organization Theory & Social Network Analysis at Università Bocconi in Milan and at SDA Bocconi, where he served as Dean from 2016 to 2022. His career at Università Bocconi includes numerous institutional responsibilities, such as directing the Organization and Personnel Area and the Claudio Dematté Research Division at SDA Bocconi, leading the Department of Management & Technology at Università Bocconi, and serving as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the SDA Bocconi Asia Center based in Mumbai, India.

Prof. Soda's intensive research activity explores the interaction between organizational architectures and social networks. His scientific contributions have significantly advanced our understanding of the origins and evolution of organizational networks and have been published in the most prestigious international academic journals, including Administrative Science Quarterly, Management Science, Organization Science, Academy of Management Journal, and Strategic Management Journal.

He has served on and is currently on the editorial boards of international academic journals; he is the editor of the Leading Management book series (EGEA - SDA Bocconi) and has edited the "Management" series published by Corriere della Sera and Egea.

Internationally, after six years as a member of the Board of the EFMD-EQUIS accreditation system, he was recently appointed Associate Director at the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD). He is also an elected member of the Board of the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC®), the international association of management schools that owns the GMAT test.

Prof. Soda holds a PhD in Business Administration from Università Bocconi, completed a post-doc at Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA, USA), and has been a Visiting Professor at IE Business School (Madrid, SP) and London Business School.