Francesco Piras

Director of sales by Fattorie isola, organic wine Sardinian company

Within the framework of the Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs, 3 months collaboration with Saffer Wein GmbH in Munich, a dynamic family company specialized in importing/distributing Italian wine since 1924 with 40 employees. I worked in close contact with the management acquiring skills for contracting supplier, securing timely delivery of quality products against competitive pricing and maintaining data integrity in used corporate systems.

Associate researcher on agrifood business, rural development policies, supply chain prices transmission, agricultural policy analysis. Involved in several national and international research and cooperation projects as a Project Manager. Lecturer in the course of “Agricultural Economics and Policy”. Co-author of manuals and texts of agricultural policy; author of about 10 article including 4 on national and international journals with anonymous reviewers.

Committed to the activities related to the Board of Structural Policies in Agriculture, reporting, managing European Projects in agrifood, technical contact point between the National Rural Network 2007-2013 and local sardinia Authorities involved in Europena Agricultural Policies.

with the project research titled A new global wheat model (Glowmm) for the analysis of wheat export prices

AdvancedMicroeconomics, Econometric Methods, Political Economy, Economics of Environmental Policy, Rural and Peasant Economies and Research Methods, agricultural trade. It aims to prepare as a professional economist in the area of food, agriculture and development of rural areas.

The SMEA Master provided an analytical and integrated vision of principal company functions, and development of the skills necessary to deal with organisational and managerial choices in agribusiness.

mathematics, agricultural subjects and economics with the final mark of 110/110 cum laude