Ferdinando Scala | |
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| Born | May 24, 1969 Portici (Italy) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Nunziatella Military School University of Naples Federico II |
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| Era | XX-XXI century |
| Main interests | military historian,History of warfare,World War I,Fascism |
| Notable works | Il generale Armando Tallarigo I Generali italiani della Grande Guerra |
Ferdinando Scala (born May 24,1969) is an Italian biologist,science and technology journalist and historian,specialized in strategy and military history.
Born in Portici,he spent his first year of life in Foggia,where his father was servicing as a warrant officer of the Italian Air Force,and then he moved to San Giorgio a Cremano,that he then always considered his hometown. Here he frequented elementary and middle school,and then he spent the first two years of high school at Liceo Classico Statale "Quinto Orazio Flacco" of Portici.
A cadet of the class 1984–87 of Nunziatella Military School of Naples,he studied together with Antonio Mele, [1] Marco Mattiucci, [1] Valerio Gildoni, [2] [3] [4] Antonio De Crescentiis, [2] and Bepi Pezzulli. [5] Admitted at Military Academy of Modena as an Officer cadet of 169ºclass,he resigned and enrolled as a student of biological sciences of the University of Naples Federico II.
Graduated summa cum laude in March 1995,he spent one year of research work at CNR-ISPAIM institute of Ercolano,then in January 1997 he won a yearly research fellowship and he was assigned to the Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionelle et Evolutive,a CNRS institute of Montpellier. [6] In this period,he performed research activity in the field of satellite and airborne remote sensing applications to environmental monitoring [7] in collaboration with the Joint Research Center of the European Commission and DLR. He further collaborated with European Space Agency to the ENVISAT mission,and finally he participated as author to the Italian National Communication to Fight Desertification in the UNCCD framework. [8]
Having abandoned his scientific career,in 1998 he moved to the pharmaceutical industry,where he held positions in Italy and abroad in marketing &sales for Abbott, [9] Menarini, [10] Takeda, [11] Serono, [12] Bristol-Myers Squibb, [13] Allergan,and living between Florence, [14] Rome [11] and Dublin. [15]
In 2010 he moved to management consulting in Publicis Groupe,also in the pharmaceutical sector,working at global level for Healthware International as Strategy Director. [16] [17] [18] In this assignment,he specialized in international pharmaceutical marketing, [19] [20] digital marketing, [21] design thinking [22] business games,innovation management,change management [23] and digital health, [24] also serving as judge at Digital Health Awards. [25] He also specializes in Patient Advocacy Groups relationships, [26] being a founding member of World Psoriasis Day,European Patient Digital Health Awards and collaborating scientist for European Cancer Patient Coalition. [27] [28]
Between 2013 and 2023 he has been teaching Pharmaceutical Marketing and Management at Alma Laboris Business School in Rome [29] and since 2017 he is a Faculty member at Digital Health Academy. [30] Between 2016 and 2020,he served as a board member of Select Milano, [31] [32] [33] a conservative think-tank and business diplomacy initiative, [34] [35] [36] with the mission to foster bilateral relations with the City of London after Brexit. [37] [38] [39] [40] In 2020 he started working as a contributor to the science,information security and technology magazine Infosec.news,founded by Umberto Rapetto [41] and he qualified as a journalist on September 22,2022. [42] His main interests are military, [43] spaceflight, [44] [45] [46] [47] [48] [49] technology, [50] [51] [52] geopolitics [53] [54] [55] and artificial intelligence applications in healthcare. [56] [57]
He began publishing in the field of military history in 2016,making a monographic contribution to the history of the Nunziatella after discovering the lack of a name on the war memorial of the academy inaugurated in 1920. [58] In 2018,after five years of research,he published a biographical volume on General Armando Tallarigo,commander first of the 152nd Infantry Regiment and then of the Sassari Brigade during the First World War. In this work,presented at the International Festival èStoria in Gorizia, [59] he brought back to historical reality the events narrated by Emilio Lussu in the volume Un anno sull'altipiano (One year on the High Plateau),and then taken up again in fictional form by Francesco Rosi in the movie Many Wars Ago (Uomini contro). [60] [61]
In 2019 he published with historians Paolo Gaspari and Paolo Pozzato the encyclopedic volume The Italian Generals of Great War,C-Z (I generali italiani della Grande guerra,C-Z),an important contribution to the historiography of the First World War on the Italian Front,published in collaboration with the Historical Office of the General Staff of the Italian Army. [62] [63] The following year,he participated in the book The Civil Religion of a People (La religione civile di un popolo), [64] dedicated to re-evaluating Italy's contribution to the Great War through the monuments that commemorate the fallen and to reinterpreting the First World War as a fundamental moment in the construction of the Italian nation. The book attracted significant attention from the press and the RAI national television. [65] [66] [67]
In 2023,he published “Leaders and Their Moral Preparation for the Function of Command”(I Capi e la loro preparazione morale alla funzione del comando) a work on leadership ethics resulting from the comparison and modernization of the three editions of the book of the same name by Armando Tallarigo,first published in 1930. In it,he revisited the original author’s message,focused on the moral and material responsibility of military commanders and civilian leaders towards their subordinates,and translated it into a contemporary form,useful for modern leaders [68] .
Since 2020 he has been a member of the Italian Society for Military History and his current research interests are focused on the history of the Carabinieri and the relationship between military hierarchies and Italian Fascism.
The Nunziatella Military School of Naples, Italy, founded November 18, 1787 under the name of Royal Military Academy, is the oldest Italian institution of military education among those still operating. Its building, familiarly called "Red Manor", and the adjacent church of the Santissima Annunziata, is an architectural monument of the city of Naples.
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