Celebrating Influence: The Analysis and Scholarship of President Katia Passerini

Katia Passerini, Ph.D., joined Gonzaga University as its twenty seventh president on July 15, 2025, changing into the second layperson to serve within the position. President Passerini is a distinguished scholar whose interdisciplinary analysis spans a number of domains, together with enterprise administration and administration, info know-how, digital transformation, data administration, increased training innovation, and world growth. Her work has considerably contributed to the understanding of how digital applied sciences reshape enterprise fashions, significantly in startups and service-oriented companies. Through empirical research and theoretical frameworks, she has contributed to the event of digital entrepreneurship as a strategic driver of innovation, whereas additionally exploring the psychological traits and cultural contexts that affect entrepreneurial success.

Her scholarship in data administration bridges concept and follow, adapting KM rules to early-stage ventures, micro-enterprises, and academic environments. She has pioneered using thoughts maps, team-based studying fashions, and social media analytics to boost pupil engagement and integrative pondering in enterprise training. Her analysis additionally addresses vital points in digital ethics, privateness, and governance, providing authorized and coverage insights into digital healthcare techniques, social networking conduct, and ESG measurement frameworks.

Globally engaged and a prolific creator, President Passerini has contributed extensively to worldwide scholarship by comparative research, cross-cultural analysis, and collaborative initiatives within the United States, France, China, and Uganda, illuminating how cultural contexts form studying, innovation, and coverage growth. An professional in her many areas of research, she has formed scholarly discourse in entrepreneurship, gender fairness, and analysis technique, advocating for impactful, inclusive, and practice-informed scholarship. Her work continues to affect educators, entrepreneurs, and policymakers searching for to navigate complexity and foster sustainable development in a digitally related world, and we at Gonzaga University and the Foley Library are excited to be part of her journey.

Foley Library has created a information to function an introduction to President Passerini’s profession in academia. On the information, you’ll find info on and hyperlinks to a lot of her publications, the honors and awards she has obtained over her tenure, and extra.