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- 17 Jun 2026
- 6 days
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- Italian
Francesca Casalini
Government, Health and Not for Profit
Lecturer
Business Government Relations
francesca.casalini@unibocconi.it
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Biography
Francesca Casalini is a Lecturer in the Government, Health & Not for Profit Knowledge Group at SDA Bocconi School of Management. She collaborates with the Knowledge Group of Strategy & Entrepreneurship and she is a Teaching Assistant of the Master in Strategy and Entrepreneurship (MISA). Francesca is also a PhD Candidate in Management at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland.
Her research interests focus on innovative business models based on public-private collaborations and digital platforms. Her teaching activities mainly focus on business planning and business modeling in multiple sectors (both for-profit and non-profit, based on traditional collaborations as well as platforms) and strategic data crunching.
Francesca has been a research grantee of the European Investment Bank and a Research Assistant for the World Bank, Asian Development Bank and Inter-American Development Bank on the topic of public-private collaborations. She has also worked with several start-ups, private companies and public administrations in the business planning of new strategic projects based on public-private collaborations.
Francesca holds a B.Sc. in Economics and Management with honors from the Università di Bologna and an M.Sc. in Management with honors from Università Bocconi. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Management at the University of St. Gallen.
Teaching domains
Impact Investing
Collaborative Partnership
Scaling Up of Innovative Initiatives
PPP & Concession Contracts
Latest publications
Financing Infrastructure with Public–Private Partnerships in The Palgrave Handbook of Development Finance
George Kararach, Emmanuel Pinto Moreira, Victor Murinde (Eds),Palgrave Macmillan, pp.263-283, 2025
Public-Private Collaborations for Long Term Investments. Converging Towards Public Value Generation
Edward Elgar Publishing, Great Britain, 2022
Investigating the performance of PPP in major healthcare infrastructure projects: the role of policy, institutions, and contracts
Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2022, vol.38, no. 2, pp.385-401
Una PA reattiva: generare valore per la società attraverso le collaborazioni pubblico-privato in Reactive PA. Lezioni dalla Pandemia per il Cambiamento della Pubblica Amministrazione
G. Valotti (Eds),Egea, chap. 12, pp.305-320, 2022
Public Private Partnerships: Principles for Sustainable Contracts
Palgrave Macmillan, , 2021
PPP in Health Care—Trending Toward a Light Model: Evidence From Italy
Public Works Management & Policy, 2020, vol.25, no. 3, pp.244-258
Grants & Honors
Research Grant - European Investment Bank (EIB)
, 2018
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