Professor of Political Science, University of Bologna

Sofia Ventura is an Associate Professor at the University of Bologna in the department of Political and Social Sciences where she teaches Comparative Politics and Leadership and Political Communication; she is a lecturer at the LUISS School of Government. She is a member of the Scientific Committee of the Centre for Media and Communication Studies "Massimo Baldini" - LUISS University "Guido Carli" and has designed and coordinated, with prof. Giovanni Orsina, the module “Leadership and Political and Institutional Management” taught in the Master in «Institutional Political Communication and Marketing - LUISS School of Government». Her main areas of research have been school policies, federalism, federal institutions in multinational political systems; her latest studies concern political communication and political leadership styles, to which she has dedicated numerous articles and essays. Since 2010, she has been a member of the Political Journal - Rdp. She wrote for the Corriere di Bologna, the Quotidiano Nazionale (QN - Resto del Carlino, Nazione, Il Giorno), for the monthly magazine of the Sole 24 Ore IL, for the newspaper La Stampa and has written in-depth articles for the French newspaper Le Monde. She currently writes for L'Espresso and her blog on Huffington Post.