Franco Anelli

Franco Anelli, alumnus of the University and full professor of Private Law at the Faculty of Law, has been elected as Rector of Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore for the third term - covering the next four-year period 2020/21-2023/24 - as unanimously confirmed by the Board of Directors on 15 July 2020.

Former Vice-Rector for the 2004/05 AY and Deputy Vice-Rector from 2010 to 2012, Professor Franco Anelli has been Rector of Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore since 1 January 2013. He graduated in Law and completed his Doctoral Programme in Commercial Law at the Milan campus and was subsequently appointed as Associate Professor of Institutions of Private Law at the Faculty of Economics in 1993 and then as Principal Lecturer in the Faculty of Law of the University of Parma in 1996.

He returned to Cattolica in 1997 and he is currently full professor of Private Law Institutions at the Faculty of Law.

He is also Vice-President of the E4Impact Foundation and is sits on the Board of Directors of the “Fondazione Policlinico Agostino Gemelli” and the "Avvenire Nuova Editoriale Italiana S.p.A."