MONTEMERLO DANIELA

University Degree in Business Administration, Bocconi University, Milano (1989). PhD in Business Administration, with a dissertation on corporate governance theories (1994) From November 1999 to September 2006, Assistant Professor of Business Administration at Bocconi University. Since October 2017, Full Professor of Business Administration at the University of Insubria, where: - since 2006, she has been teaching Management (at undergraduate level) and Management and Governance of Family Firms (at graduate level) and is in charge of these courses; - she has been Associate Professor from 2006 to 2017; - she has been Chair of the Joint Committee for Teaching between faculty and students from 2007 to 2024; - she has been Deputy Director of the Department of Economics from 2018 to 2024; - since April 2025, she is the Coordinator of the University Quality Assurance Board. Contract Professor of Strategic Management in Family Businesses (Master degree) from the 2005-2006 academic year. SDA Bocconi Affiliate Professor of Family Business and Governance. From 2001 to 2011, Founding board member of the International Family Enterprise Research Academy (IFERA), the global association of family business scholars. Since 2011, IFERA Fellow. Family business expert, with research interests on such topics as family and corporate governance, family and ownership agreements, conflict management, intra- and inter-generational transition processes, co-leadership, succession, professional management. Author and co-author of various publications, including: - The Effects of Family Ownership on Gender Diversity in Upper Echelons. Institutional Perspective Evidence from the Masculine Society of Poland, in B. Orlando (editor), Reforming Business Knowledge for Inclusivity and Gender Parity, IGI Global, 2026, with A. Dos, P. Fragkoulis, P. Gazzola, D. Grechi - Conflitti, accordi e processi di comunicazione. Gli studi e alcune best practice per mantenere e recuperare coesione nel sistema famiglia-proprietà-impresa, Economia Aziendale Online, Volume 16 – N. 4/2025 - La letteratura di family business sui sistemi di governance: una riflessione su progressi e sfide, Economia Aziendale Online, Volume 15 – N. 4/2024 - La buona governance. Scelte e strumenti per imprese non quotate, with A. Minichilli and V. D’Angelo, EGEA, 2023 - Le scelte improrogabili delle imprese familiari. Come affrontare le sfide della governance di aziende e famiglie proprietarie in un mondo cambiato, EGEA, 2019 - I pilastri del buon governo, in V. Coda and M. Minoja (editors), Bene comune e comportamenti responsabili nelle imprese e nelle istituzioni, EGEA, 2016 - Governance systems in family SMEs: the substitution effect of family councils on official mechanisms, Journal of Small Business Management, with L. Gnan and M. Huse, 2013 - Fratelli e sorelle in azienda. Come fare della relazione più lunga della vita un punto di forza dell’impresa e della famiglia proprietaria, EGEA 2013 (foreword by V. Coda) - The Family Constitution. Agreements to Secure and Perpetuate your Family and your Business, PalgraveMacMillan, 2011, with J.L. Ward - Continuità generazionale e accordi familiari. Principi e regole per l’impresa, la proprietà e la famiglia, EGEA, 2009 (foreword by J. L. Ward) Extensive governance experience as a non-executive and independent board member of listed companies in industrial and financial sectors, as well as of unlisted family businesses, and as Chair and member of Supervisory Bodies. Independent advisor to family and coalition businesses, entrepreneurs, and entrepreneurial families. Since 2023, Fellow of the Family Firm Institute (FFI) – a global association of educators, researchers, and service providers on family business - where she also chairs the Achievement Awards Committee. Since 2015, member of the Scientific Committee of the Institute for Business Values (I