The President

Dario E. Viganò
Professor of Communication and Dean of the Redemptor Hominis Istituto at the Pontifical Lateran University. He lectures on the semiotics of cinema and audiovisuals at the LUISS “Guido Carli” University where he is also a member of the managing board of the “Massimo Baldini” Centre for Media and Communication Studies. He is President of the Fondazione Ente dello Spettacolo and editor-in-chief of “Rivista del Cinematografo” and is also a member of the Administrative Council for the ‘Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia’.

His published works include: Il prete di celluloide. Nove sguardi d'autore (Assisi 2010); Dizionario della comunicazione (Rome, 2009); La musa impara a digitare. Uomo, media e società (Rome 2009); La Chiesa nel tempo dei media (Rome 2008); Gesù e la macchina da presa. Dizionario ragionato del cinema cristologico (Rome 2005); and, with Ruggero Eugeni, Attraverso lo schermo. Cinema e cultura cattolica in Italia, III vols (Rome 2006).

 

 

Graduated in Rome in Law and then in Communication Studies. In 2004 he took a Master’s degree in Business Administration (MBA) at the Mib School of Management in Trieste.
Prior to accepting the position of Director of the Fondazione Ente dello Spettacolo, he worked in external relations for the Capitalia Group as well as for various multinational companies and was involved in strategic planning within the fields of communication and the new media, in reference to the launch of new products onto the European and American market and to the management of company image in relation to the referential financial community.