VIU - Key Persons


Alessandra Fornetti

Job Titles:
  • Executive Director

Alessandro De Rossi


Alessandro Spezzamonte

Job Titles:
  • Director

Ambassador Umberto Vattani - President

Job Titles:
  • Ambassador
  • President
Ambassador Umberto Vattani is the President of Venice International University since 2001.

Cristina Di Gioia

Job Titles:
  • Program Coordinator

Daniele Archibugi

Job Titles:
  • Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche - CNR

Diana Mattiello

Job Titles:
  • Program Assistant
  • Globalization Program Coordinator
  • Graduate Program Coordinator
  • Program Assistant - Student Services ( Internships, Mobility & Erasmus )

Elena Bovolenta

Job Titles:
  • Librarian

Elisa Carlotto

Job Titles:
  • Program Coordinator
  • Globalization Program Academic Advisor

Francesca Scattolin

Job Titles:
  • Program Assistant

Francesca Zennaro


Giovanna Pietrobon


Ignazio Musu

Job Titles:
  • Scientific Director

Igor Nash

Job Titles:
  • Head of Office

Ilda Mannino

Job Titles:
  • Scientific Coordinator

Jasmine El Din


Lucia Di Gioia

Job Titles:
  • Executive Director

Luigi Brugnaro - VP

Job Titles:
  • Vice President

Marcello Masiero

Job Titles:
  • Assistant

Marco Mazzarino

Job Titles:
  • Logistics

Matteo Cavalieri

Job Titles:
  • Administration Control Model and Quality System
  • EU Project Controller

Miriam Rivas Medina

Job Titles:
  • Program Assistant
  • Program Assistant - Student Services ( Visas & Residency Permits, Accommodation, Co - Curricular Program )

Orla McLaughlin

Job Titles:
  • Executive Director
  • Head of Office
  • Vice Dean and Globalization Program Scientific Director

Prof. Carmelo Marabello

Job Titles:
  • Dean
  • Dean of Venice International University since April 2022
  • Professor of Film and Media Studies at the Università Iuav
Carmelo Marabello is full professor of Film and Media Studies at the Università Iuav di Venezia in the Department of Architecture and Arts, where from 2015 to 2021 he coordinated the Multimedia track of the Bachelor's Degree in Fashion and Multimedia Design. He was a member of the Academic Senatus from 2018 to 2021 and is currently the Rector's delegate for University Strategy. Marabello teaches courses on Cinema and Contemporary Arts; Media Theory; Anthropology of Images; Expanded Cinema; Globalization and Media; Film, Lansdcape and Architecture. His research interests include Filmology, Media Theory, History of Italian Cinema, Visual Culture and Artistic Practices, History of Photography, History and Theory of Visual Anthropology and Ethnographic cinema, Film Analysis as the practice of editing and reassembling film materials, Environmental Humanities. Before joining the Iuav University in 2014 as an associate professor, Marabello was curator and programming director of the Taormina International Film Festival, and spent 10 years at RAI - the Italian public broadcasting company, where he authored, edited and directed various programs and projects. He returned to academia in the 2000s obtaining a PhD at the University of Bergamo, where he became a Researcher, a role that he fulfilled also at the Universities of Messina, Bolzano and the Bocconi in Milan.

Prof. Luca Pes

Job Titles:
  • Scientific Director
  • Vice Dean and Globalization Program Scientific Coordinator

Rebecca Simonetti

Job Titles:
  • Program Assistant
  • Social Media, GP Events, Virtual Exchange, Testimonials

Silvia Casalini

Job Titles:
  • Assistant

Stefano Micelli

Job Titles:
  • Scientific Director