Tiziana Lippiello

Board of Directors

Tiziana Lippiello graduated in 1986 in Oriental Languages and Literatures from Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and studied at the Beijing Foreign Studies University, the Philosophy Department of Fudan University in Shanghai (1985-1987), and the Faculty of Letters at Leiden University (1989-1993), where she earned her PhD. She began her career as a researcher at the University of Trieste and joined Ca’ Foscari in 2000, where she teaches Classical Chinese Language, and Chinese religions and philosophy. Within the university, she has served as a senator, director of the Department of Asian and North African Studies, and Vice Rector with a mandate for international relations. Since October 1, 2020, she has been the Rector of Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and, since 2023, the president of the European alliance Eutopia. She is also a member of the CRUI Executive Committee (Conference of Italian University Rectors) and the CRUI Delegate for International Affairs and Cooperation