Massimiliano TAROZZI

Massimiliano Tarozzi is UNESCO Chair in Global Citizenship Education in Higher Education. He is full Professor at the University of Bologna where he is founding director of the International Research Centre on Global Citizenship Education (GCED). He was Co-Director of the Development Education Research Centre at UCL Institute of Education where he is Visiting Professor. He is member of the Advisory Board and Coordinator of Academic Network on Global Education and Learning.

He has been studying in the field of intercultural education for more than 20 years and has extensively published on the topics of global citizenship education, intercultural education, citizenship education, social justice education, and qualitative research methods.

He has been teaching GCED in various MA programmes both in Bologna and at the institute of education in London and he has been regularly invited as visiting professor in several international universities including UCLA, Seattle, Harvard, USP, São Paulo, Normal Beijing University.

Outside academia, he worked for an Italian NGO as head of educational area and then as consultant for several International NGOs and local authorities. He was appointed President of the Institution governing the educational services in the Municipality of Bologna.