Andrea Prencipe is the Rector of Luiss University, having formerly served as Deputy Rector. He is also a full Professor of Organization Theory and Innovation.

Prior to that, Andrea has held academic positions at INSEAD and the G. D’Annunzio University; and he has been a visiting professor at BI Norway, Imperial College Business School, and Rotterdam School of Management, and Honorary Professor at SPRU-University of Sussex. Additionally, he has been an invited as lecturer to Harvard Business School, University of Michigan, London Business School, and Oxford University; and has taught courses at Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management and the National Economics University in Hanoi.

Andrea is an associate editor of the Journal of Management Studies and is member of the editorial board of several journals, such as Industrial and Corporate Change, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, International Journal of Project Management, and Long Range Planning. Andrea’s research interests include the organization of innovation, project-based organizations, and the relationships between regional social capital and firms’ performance. He has published articles on these subjects in academic journals –Research Policy–, practitioner journals – California Management Review–, and in major international publishers –Oxford University Press.

He holds a BA from the G. d’Annunzio University, and MA from the St. Anna School of Advanced Studies, and a MSc and PhD from the SPRU-University of Sussex.