Prof. Aldo Patania
- Adjunct Faculty
- Laurea di Dottore, Università degli Studi Catania
- M.A., The Johns Hopkins University
Prof. Patania is a European Union national who has divided his existence between Europe and the States. His native language is Italian, though he learned English while attending High School in Connecticut. He also speaks French and Spanish. He has a doctoral degree in International Relations from the Italian state university in Catania (Sicily) and was also granted a Fulbright scholarship to study international economics at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies both in Bologna and in Washington DC. He started out by being the senior economic expert of the US Ambassadors in Rome before moving on to London to be the senior country manager for then Czechoslovakia at the newly founded European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. In the meantime he took on teaching as a side activity. Eventually he decided to go solely into teaching and that is what he has been doing for the past 20 years. He has been teaching at AUR since Summer 1989 and is a faculty member of both the Business and the International Relations Departments. He is well known for his practical, hands-on approach to teaching and believes firmly in taking his students into the real world by leading them through intensive tours of leading Italian companies and institutions.
Personal website: www.aldopatania.com
