Mattia MIANI

Mattia Miani is a Deputy Head for Preliminary Year Content at the University of Nottingham campus in Ningbo China (UNNC), where he leads the content subjects delivered to over 2000 students during their first year of studies. 

Mattia Miani holds a bachelor degree in Communication Sciences and an EMBA from the University of Bologna and a Master of Science in Creative Studies from New York State University. He is currently pursuing EDD studies at UNNC. 

Mr Miani is also a certified trainer, instructional designer and lecturer having achieved an Australian Graduate Certificate in Tertiary Teaching and Learning, an American Graduate Certificate in Instructional Design, an Australian Diploma of Training Design and Development and an Australian Certificate IV in Training and Assessment. He has experience in delivering learning experiences at all levels: executive, postgraduate, undergraduate and vocational.

Before joining Nottingham in Ningbo, he worked for 6 years in Vietnam at RMIT University holding a variety of roles: lecturer, manager of enterprise and executive education and manager of co-curricular education. For his work in training in Vietnam in 2014 he received a Creativity Achievement Award from the International Centre in Studies of Creativity at the New York State University and in 2011 he was recognized by RMIT University Vietnam as its best teacher of the year.

From 2003 to 2010 he worked in Italy as a lecturer and academic director at the business school of the University of Bologna and as a marketing consultant and entrepreneur advising cooperative enterprises, advertising agencies, and government organisations on their communication strategies. From 2005 to 2010 he served as an executive vice president of an advertising agency in Bologna. From 2008 to 2011 Mr Miani served as a director on the board of the Centre for Training and Initiative on Cooperative Enterprise and Business Ethics, a joint venture between the University of Bologna and the Italian Cooperative Movement. Before coming to Asia, Mr Miani spent time on international assignments in the United States, Canada, Austria, Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina.

He is also a certified trainer and administrator of a number of instruments including MBTI®, Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI®), The Leadership Challenge™, Situational Leadership Assessment, Color Code®.