“The partnership I’m proudest of is always the next one, and it’s never a solo one.”
Most universities bring together an academic lead, a business lead and a marketing lead, then ask them to agree. I have been all three: for almost twenty years, from Italy to the Americas, I’ve founded schools, designed, managed and taught transnational degrees, and grown and marketed them. That is why I can speak each one’s language, sit between partners and make the whole thing work.
Today I advise on transnational education partnerships, develop frameworks for global learning, and write University Ecosystems, a newsletter on the future of the university.
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Global learning that pays for itself and grows the local economy. A cycle where labs, funding, reinvestment and an AI Data Center keep each other alive.
Explore the frameworksTwo editions a month on the future of the university. Each one takes a principle of the University Ecosystems manifesto and tests it against data and real partnerships. Written for the people who lead universities, and open to everyone who builds partnerships with them.
How the SGLE was born, and why global learning should pay back at home.
No. 2 · Oct 27, 2026 · Principle 4A school in Rome, a UK degree, and the route a territory can draw.
No. 1 · Oct 15, 2026 · The manifestoWho is writing, why now, and seven principles to write together.
Every week I read the numbers behind international higher education, from student mobility and transnational education to policy and funding. Each month I suggest one way to put them to work.
298,180 US students studied abroad in 2023/24. It sounds large. As a share of all students it is about 1 in 100.
Source: Open Doors (IIE), 2023/24
Every principle of the University Ecosystems manifesto needs to meet practice. So between editions of the newsletter, I invite a leader who has built something close to it, and I ask them to test it against what they have seen work, and fail.
These pages are also my thanks to them, and a place to show what their universities and institutions are building.
See the seriesPlanning a partnership, applying one of the frameworks, or building something worth a Conversation? I'd be glad to hear from you.
