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Ferdinando Scala

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Ferdinando Scala
Born (1969-05-24) May 24, 1969 (age 55)
Portici (Italy)
Academic background
Alma materNunziatella Military School
University of Naples Federico II
Academic work
EraXX-XXI century
Main interestsmilitary historian, History of warfare, World War I, Fascism
Notable worksIl 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[1], specialized in strategy and military history.

Biography

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Education and scientific career

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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,[2] Marco Mattiucci,[2] Valerio Gildoni,[3][4][5] Antonio De Crescentiis,[3] and Bepi Pezzulli.[6] Admitted at Military Academy of Modena as an Officer cadet of 169º class, 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.[7] In this period, he performed research activity in the field of satellite and airborne remote sensing applications to environmental monitoring[8] 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.[9]

Professional and Public career

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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,[10] Menarini,[11] Takeda,[12] Serono,[13] Bristol-Myers Squibb,[14] Allergan, and living between Florence,[15] Rome[12] and Dublin.[16]

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.[17][18][19] In this assignment, he specialized in international pharmaceutical marketing,[20][21] digital marketing,[22] design thinking[23] business games, innovation management, change management[24] and digital health,[25] also serving as judge at Digital Health Awards.[26] He also specializes in Patient Advocacy Groups relationships,[27] being a founding member of World Psoriasis Day, European Patient Digital Health Awards and collaborating scientist for European Cancer Patient Coalition.[28][29]

Between 2013 and 2023 he has been teaching Pharmaceutical Marketing and Management at Alma Laboris Business School in Rome[30] and since 2017 he is a Faculty member at Digital Health Academy.[31] Between 2016 and 2020, he served as a board member of Select Milano,[32][33][34] a conservative think-tank and business diplomacy initiative,[35][36][37] with the mission to foster bilateral relations with the City of London after Brexit.[38][39][40][41] In 2020 he started working as a contributor to the science, information security and technology magazine Infosec.news, founded by Umberto Rapetto[42] and he qualified as a journalist on September 22, 2022.[43] His main interests are military,[44] spaceflight,[45][46][47][48][49][50] technology,[51][52][53] geopolitics[54][55][56] and artificial intelligence applications in healthcare.[57][58]

In August 2024, he was appointed Head of Communication and Culture of the Nunziatella Alumni National Association and Editor-in-Chief of Rosso Maniero (Red Manor), the official journal of the Association.[59][60][61][62]

Historian career

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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.[63][64] 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,[65] 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).[66][67]

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.[68][69] The following year, he participated in the book The Civil Religion of a People (La religione civile di un popolo),[70] 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.[71][72][73]

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.[74][75]

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 Nunziatella,[76] the history of the Carabinieri and the relationship between military hierarchies and Italian Fascism.

Books

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  • Ferdinando Scala, Il caduto dimenticato – la breve Grande Guerra di Federico Mensingher. Associazione Nazionale Ex Allievi Nunziatella, Napoli 2016. Full text.
  • Ferdinando Scala, Il generale Armando Tallarigo – dalla leggenda della Brigata Sassari al dopoguerra. Gaspari Editore, Udine 2018. ISBN 978-88-7541-597-6
  • Paolo Gaspari, Paolo Pozzato, Ferdinando Scala, I generali italiani della Grande guerra, Atlante biografico C-Z. Gaspari Editore, Udine 2019. ISBN 978-88-7541-409-2
  • Paolo Gaspari, Paolo Pozzato, Ferdinando Scala, I generali: Emanuele Filiberto di Savoia-Aosta, Antonio Edoardo Chinotto, Tommaso Monti, Giuseppe Paolini, Giovanni Prelli, Fulvio Riccieri, Ferruccio Trombi, Achille Papa, Alceo Cattalochino. In: AA.VV. La religione civile di un popolo. Carso, Redipuglia, Oslavia, il cimitero degli Eroi di Aquileia. Gaspari Editore, Udine 2020. ISBN 978-88-7541-710-9.
  • Ferdinando Scala, La Nunziatella nella Grande Guerra 1915-1918 - I generali. Associazione Nazionale Ex Allievi Nunziatella, Napoli, 2021. Full text.
  • Armando Tallarigo, Ferdinando Scala, I Capi e la loro preparazione morale alla funzione del comando. Antonio Stango Editore, Arezzo 2023. ISBN 978-88-8890-957-8.

References

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Citations

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  1. ^ Scala, Ferdinando (November 16, 2024). "I ragazzi di Pizzofalcone" (in Italian). Speciale Scuola Militare Nunziatella: Il Mattino. p. I.
  2. ^ a b Catenacci 2015, p. 198.
  3. ^ a b Catenacci 2015, p. 199.
  4. ^ Redazione ANSA (July 17, 2021). "Città Castello ricorda sacrificio colonnello Arma Gildoni". ANSA.
  5. ^ Redazione (July 17, 2021). "La lettera ricordo del dottor Ferdinando Scala, già collega del Colonnello Valerio Gildoni, nel 12mo anniversario della morte". Primo Piano Notizie. Retrieved 4 December 2023.
  6. ^ Catenacci 2015, p. 200.
  7. ^ Scala, Ferdinando (August 1997). "Restoring abaptation". Volume 11, Issue 8: Trends in Ecology and Evolution. p. 320. doi:10.1016/S0169-5347(97)89919-3. Retrieved 4 December 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
  8. ^ Danielle Caraux-Garson; Bernard Lacaze; Ferdinando Scala; Joachim Hill; Wolfgang Mehl. "Ten years of vegetation cover monitoring with LANDSAT-TM remote sensing, an operational approach of DeMon-2 in Languedoc, France". Symposium on operational remote sensing for sustainable development, Enschede, Nederlands. Retrieved 4 December 2023.
  9. ^ Scala, Ferdinando. "Le antenne di ricerca per il monitoraggio della desertificazione". Ministero dell'Ambiente - UNCCD. Retrieved 4 December 2023.
  10. ^ Catenacci, Orsini & Sbordone 2015, p. 99.
  11. ^ Catenacci, Orsini & Sbordone 2015, p. 70.
  12. ^ a b Catenacci, Orsini & Sbordone 2015, p. 81.
  13. ^ Catenacci, Orsini & Sbordone 2015, p. 84.
  14. ^ Catenacci, Orsini & Sbordone 2015, p. 122.
  15. ^ Catenacci, Orsini & Sbordone 2015, p. 77.
  16. ^ admin (2023-08-16). "Ferdinando SCALA". GIANO NEWS (in Italian). Retrieved 2023-10-06.
  17. ^ Poli.design, Politecnico di Milano. "How to sell healthcare services in an era of Big Data and Crowdsourcing". Retrieved 4 December 2023.
  18. ^ "Esperti a confronto su "Sanità digitale e terapie digitali, i bisogni delle persone al centro del nuovo patto per la salute"". Umbria Digitale (in Italian). Umbria Digitale. June 28, 2021. Retrieved 3 January 2024.
  19. ^ European Patient Cancer Coalition (2019). Vivere bene durante la terapia oncologica (PDF) (in Italian). Retrieved 4 December 2023.
  20. ^ Blake, Hannah (October 16, 2012). "The unwanted consequences of regulations in pharma". Pharmaphorum. Retrieved 15 December 2023.
  21. ^ Scala, Ferdinando. "Marketing for life science companies - drivers of change". Pharmaphorum. Pharmaphorum. Retrieved 7 December 2023.
  22. ^ Scala, Ferdinando; Agrò, Leandro. "Crowdsourcing and Big Data - How ePatients, and their machines, are evolving Health". Slideshare. Razorfish Healthware. Retrieved 7 December 2023.
  23. ^ "Faculty - Ferdinando Scala". Digital Health Campus. Retrieved 7 December 2023.
  24. ^ "Authors - Ferdinando Scala". Digital Health Global. Retrieved 7 December 2023.
  25. ^ "Industry Pharma: l'evoluzione del lavoro nel settore farmaceutico". Reverse.hr (in Italian). Retrieved 3 January 2024.
  26. ^ Digital Health Awards. "Judges at Digital Health Awards". Retrieved 4 December 2023.
  27. ^ Scala, Ferdinando (18 January 2018). "La Digital Health al servizio dei pazienti: insights dal percorso formativo" (in Italian). Digital Health Italia. Retrieved 4 January 2024.
  28. ^ Muscaritoli, Maurizio; Molfino, Alessio; Scala, Ferdinando; Christoforidi, Kalliopi; Manneh-Vangranberen, Isabelle; De Lorenzo, Francesco (5 April 2019). "Nutritional and metabolic derangements in Mediterranean cancer patients and survivors: the ECPC 2016 survey". Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle (10). Wiley Online Library: 517–525. doi:10.1002/jcsm.12420. PMC 6596398. Retrieved 3 January 2024.
  29. ^ "Living well during cancer treatment" (PDF). European Patient Cancer Coalition. 2019. Retrieved 8 January 2024.
  30. ^ Bio on Alma Laboris Business School website
  31. ^ "Faculty: Ferdinando Scala". Digital Health Academy. Retrieved 4 December 2023.
  32. ^ "Milan offers City Brexit partnership amid threat from EU rivals". Sky News.
  33. ^ "Brexit is an opportunity to revamp Europe's financial landscape, according to Milan". CITY A.M. 2016-11-10.
  34. ^ "Brexit: Milan fait des appels du pied à la City". La Tribune (in French). 24 November 2016.
  35. ^ "Italy tries to swoop on City of London to 'fix its Brexit problem". Daily Express. 2016-11-10.
  36. ^ "Brexit : la place de Paris veut lutter "contre les idées reçues" (fiscales)". LaTribune.fr (in French). 29 November 2016.
  37. ^ "Milan extends help to City to fix Brexit mess". CITY A.M.
  38. ^ "23/12/2016: Cnbc (Trading Room)". Youtube (in Italian).
  39. ^ "13/12/2016: Cnbc (Trading Room)". Youtube (in Italian).
  40. ^ "03/11/2016: Cnbc (Trading Room)". Youtube (in Italian).
  41. ^ "13/10/2016: Rai 3 (Piazza Affari)". Youtube (in Italian).
  42. ^ "Ferdinando Scala Bio". Infosec. Ispromay. Retrieved 4 December 2023.
  43. ^ Rosso Maniero Nunziatella, Organo ufficiale dell'Associazione Nazionale Ex Allievi Nunziatella. Anno XVII, n. 4, dicembre 2022, p. 45
  44. ^ "La Nunziatella prende il volo". Difesa Online (in Italian). 2024-04-16. Retrieved 2024-04-18.
  45. ^ Scala, Ferdinando (April 8, 2024). "La Nunziatella si fa spazio" (in Italian). Difesa Online. Retrieved 11 April 2024.
  46. ^ Scala, Ferdinando (March 6, 2022). "Sotto una luna storta?" (in Italian). Infosec.news. Retrieved 15 December 2023.
  47. ^ Scala, Ferdinando (February 12, 2022). "Come bacchettare un'astronave". Infosec.news. Retrieved 15 December 2023.
  48. ^ Scala, Ferdinando. "Stelle e quadrumani" (in Italian). Infosec.news. Retrieved 15 December 2023.
  49. ^ Scala, Ferdinando (June 17, 2022). "Astronavi e ceralacca" (in Italian). Infosec.news. Retrieved 15 December 2023.
  50. ^ "La Nunziatella si fa spazio". Difesa Online (in Italian). 2024-04-08. Retrieved 2024-04-18.
  51. ^ Scala, Ferdinando (March 25, 2022). "E' la fine per gli amplificatori valvolari?" (in Italian). Infosec.news. Retrieved 15 December 2023.
  52. ^ Scala, Ferdinando (June 25, 2022). "E' possibile un'etica del cyberwarfare?" (in Italian). Infosec.news. Retrieved 15 December 2023.
  53. ^ Scala, Ferdinando (April 26, 2022). "Elon Musk compra Twitter" (in Italian). Infosec.news. Retrieved 15 December 2023.
  54. ^ Scala, Ferdinando (February 10, 2024). "La memoria del giorno". Difesa Online. Retrieved 11 February 2024.
  55. ^ Scala, Ferdinando (March 28, 2022). "Guerra Russo-Ucraina: il punto strategico" (in Italian). Infosec.news. Retrieved 15 December 2023.
  56. ^ Scala, Ferdinando (February 24, 2022). "Come si dice Anschluss in russo?" (in Italian). Infosec.news.
  57. ^ Scala, Ferdinando (November 17, 2023). "Valutare a distanza la gravità del Parkinson: le nuove frontiere dell'IA" (in Italian). Agenda Digitale. Retrieved 4 January 2024.
  58. ^ Scala, Ferdinando (November 7, 2023). "La percezione dell'IA in ambito sanitario: quanto conta l'istruzione". Retrieved April 18, 2024.
  59. ^ Scala, Ferdinando (7 August 2024). "Continuando" (PDF). Rosso Maniero (in Italian). Naples, Italy: Associazione Nazionale Ex Allievi Nunziatella: 2, 9, 13. Retrieved 16 September 2024.
  60. ^ Di Biase, Gennaro (November 3, 2024). "Nunziatella, cadetti pronti a giurare. "I nostri valori? Bussola per la vita."". Il Mattino (in Italian). Naples, Italy: 34.
  61. ^ Di Biase, Gennaro (6 November 2024). "La Nunziatella si espande - Via libera all'ampliamento". Il Mattino (in Italian). Naples, Italy: 30.
  62. ^ Di Biase, Gennaro (November 17, 2024). "Allievi, appello del Gambrinus: "la statua resti per sempre"" (in Italian). Il Mattino. p. 26.
  63. ^ Scala, Ferdinando (2016). Il caduto dimenticato: la Grande Guerra di Federico Mensingher (in Italian). Naples, Italy: Associazione Nazionale Ex Allievi Nunziatella.
  64. ^ Azan, Cesare (2023). Luigi Russo alla Nunziatella (1919-1923) e il Masso del Monte Grappa - Protagonisti e polemiche tra le due Guerre (in Italian). Naples, Italy: Associazione Nazionale Ex Allievi Nunziatella - Fondazione Nunziatella Onlus. p. 88.
  65. ^ Scala, Ferdinando; Carbone, Flavio. "Ricerca storica, Esercito e Arma dei Carabinieri". YouTube (in Italian). èStoria. Retrieved 5 December 2023.
  66. ^ "Nuova Antologia Militare - Rivista interdisciplinare della Società di Storia Militare, Numero 1, Supplemento 1, 2020, p.1-3" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-09-25. Retrieved 2020-10-08.
  67. ^ Rassegna dell'Arma dei Carabinieri 2 Anno LXVII aprile - giugno 2019, p. 291-292
  68. ^ F. Carbone, M. Lippiello, Rassegna dell'Arma dei Carabinieri 2, Anno LXVII April-June 2021, p. 237-238
  69. ^ Nuova Antologia Militare - Rivista interdisciplinare della Società di Storia Militare. Supplemento Recensioni 2020, p. 245-248
  70. ^ La religione civile di un popolo, OPAC - Italian Public Libraries System. Access on February 4, 2022
  71. ^ Ellero, Gianfranco (October 29, 2020). "Cimiteri di guerra e sacrari, un viaggio nella religione civile di un popolo" (in Italian). Il Messaggero Veneto. Retrieved 5 December 2023.
  72. ^ Cionci, Andrea (December 8, 2020). "Un libro che finalmente parla di Patria: religione civile fonte di amore e bellezza" (in Italian). Libero. Retrieved 5 December 2023.
  73. ^ Il Milite ignoto, TG2 Dossier, RAI - Radiotelevisione Italiana, November 30, 2021, min. 37.50 Archived 2021-11-06 at the Wayback Machine
  74. ^ Carbone, Flavio (2024). "Armando Tallarigo, Ferdinando Scala - I capi e la loro preparazione morale alla funzione del comando" [Leaders and their moral preparation to the function of command]. Rassegna dell'Arma dei Carabinieri (in Italian). 2 (Anno LXXI). Rome: Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato Italiano: 179–181. ISSN 2533-3070. Retrieved 22 August 2024.
  75. ^ Transfarino, Anthony (October 2024). "Armando Tallarigo, I Capi e la loro preparazione morale alla funzione del comando Edizione a cura di Ferdinando Scala". NAM - Nuova Antologia Militare (in Italian). Year 5 (20). Rome, Italy: Società Italiana di Storia Militare: 839–842. doi:10.36158/978889295989728. ISSN 2704-9795. Retrieved 24 September 2024.
  76. ^ Cecini, Giovanni. "Il generale Antonio Sorice ministro della Guerra (1943-1944)" (in Italian).

Bibliography

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  • Catenacci, Giuseppe (2015). Ruolo degli allievi Scuola Militare Nunziatella 1787-2015. Associazione Nazionale Ex Allievi Nunziatella.
  • Catenacci, Giuseppe; Orsini, Domenico; Sbordone, Sergio (2015). Storia dell'Associazione Nazionale Ex Allievi Nunziatella 1991-2015. Associazione Nazionale Ex Allievi Nunziatella.
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