Mr Petroni (1956) currently holds the chair of Logic and Philosophy of Science at the University of Rome. He held the same chair for many years at the University of Bologna, and was a professor at the Sorbonne University in Paris (Paris-IV) and at the Bocconi University in Milan.
He received his Ph.D. from the Catholic University of Louvain, under the supervision of Jean Ladrière.
He is a member of the Accademia delle Scienze dell’Istituto di Bologna, as well as Académico Correspondiente of the Spanish Real Academia de Ciencias Morales y Politicas. He is also Accademico corrispondente non residente of the Istituto Lombardo Accademia di Scienze e Lettere.
Since 2007 he is the Secretary General of Aspen Institute Italia.
In 2023 he was the founder and is since the Director of the Alta Scuola di Formazione Olimpica (Advanced School of Olympic Specialisation) of the CONI (The Italian National Olympic Committee).
Since 2000 he is a member of the board of the Aurelio Peccei Foundation, the Italian chapter of the Club of Rome.
From 2001 to 2006 he was the General Director of the National School of Public Administration of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, whose mission is to select and to train all top civil servants in Italy.
From 2003 to 2006 was a member of the board of the Istituto dell’Enciclopedia Italiana Treccani.
From 2003 to 2012 he was a member of the executive board of the Italian public broadcasting company, RAI.
He has been a member of the board of advisors of the Foundation for Italian Art and Culture, New York, and a member of the board of guarantors and a Senior Fellow of the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia University, New York.
He is member of the Mont Pelerin Society since 1988, and a member of the Institut d’Etudes Politiques of Liechtenstein since 2020.
Mr Petroni wrote extensively about history and logic of scientific discovery in physics, methodology of social sciences, and contemporary Liberal thought.
