Fabio LA ROSA

Fabio La Rosa (Palermo, 1978) is Full Professor of Business Administration at the Department of Law, University of Catania.

He graduated in 2001 with a thesis in Business Administration at the University of Palermo, where he also obtained his PhD in Business Administration in January 2006, with the thesis "Assets and financing for a specific business", which received the prestigious “G. Ferrero” Award by the AIDEA (Accademia Italiana di Economia Aziendale) for the best PhD thesis in Business Administration discussed in Italy in 2006-2007.

He was a Visiting Scholar at the CARR (Centre for the Analysis of Risk and Regulation) of the Department of Accounting and Finance of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in London, where he studied in depth issues related to Risk Management. He was granted with a scholarship for the LLP Erasmus programme for teachers' mobility abroad at the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança (Portugal, 2010) and the School of Law and Administration of Rzeszow (Poland, 2014). He was first Researcher and then Associate Professor of Business Administration at the Kore University of Enna, where he taught for about 15 years Financial Auditing, Professional Technique and Accounting and Financial Reporting.

His main research interests are Financial Statements, Corporate Governance, Auditing, Risk Management, Corporate and Organised Crime, CSR, Business Ethics. He is author of 4 books, 16 papers in top-journals and about 60 other scientific and teaching contributions (chapters and research papers)  in the field of business administration. He is a member of the doctoral committee of the international PhD in Law at the University of Catania and of the PhD in "Economic, business and legal sciences" at the University of Enna "Kore". He is a Chartered Accountant and Auditor registered at the Ministry of Economy and Finance. He is a member of the Italian Society of Teachers of Accounting and Business Administration (SIDREA) and a member of the Italian Academy of Business Administration (AIDEA).  He is a member of the SIDREA Working Group on Business Valuation, as well as coordinator and extender of the CNDCEC-SIDREA guidelines on the business valuation of seized and confiscated companies. He is a member of GEV13B (Economic and Business Sciences) for the VQR (National Quality Research Evaluation) for the years 2015-2019.