Mario Del Vecchio

Mario Del Vecchio is an Affiliate Professor of Government, Health and Not for Profit at SDA Bocconi School of Management. He is an Associate Professor at the Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine at theUniversità degli Studi di Firenze (Florence) where he is in charge of the Health Services Research Unit.

At SDA Bocconi, he was the Vice Director of the "Claudio Demattè" Research Division (2004-2008) and then was Director of the Master in Healthcare Management (2010-2014). At present he is Knowledge Leader of the Observatory on Privately Financed Health Consumption. He has conducted research and education projects with major national and international firms.

His research activities focus on private Privately Financed Health Consumption in Healthcare, on the institutional organization and strategic choices in public healthcare companies, planning and control in public healthcare companies and organization and human resource management in brain-intensive companies. Recently, he has been analysing four main topics: relations between public and private consumption in health care, the strategy for professional communities with nursing colleges, communication in public health units and conditions for management development in the healthcare sector in Italy.

He is the author of numerous books and articles on his topics of interest. His works have been published in Health Policy, Politiche Sociali, the Italian Journal of Public Health and Mecosan, among others. He was Editor in Chief of Mecosan from 2003 to 2013 and he has taught at theNew York University.He routinely works with large national associations like the Italian Association of Public Healthcare (FIASO) or the Italian Nurses Association (IPASVI).

Mario earned a degree in Economics from Università Bocconi.