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Biography

Ferdinando Scala (born May 24, 1969) is an Italian biologist, journalist and historian, specialized in strategy and military history.

Born in Portici, he spent his first year of life in Foggia, where his father was servicing as a warrant officer of the Italian Air Force, and then he moved to San Giorgio a Cremano, that he then always considered his hometown. Here he frequented elementary and middle school, and then he spent the first two years of high school at Liceo Classico Statale "Quinto Orazio Flacco" of Portici.

A cadet of the class 1984-87 of Nunziatella Military School of Naples, he studied together with Antonio Mele, Marco Mattiucci, Valerio Gildoni, Antonio De Crescentiis, and Bepi Pezzulli. Admitted at Military Academy of Modena as a cadet officer of 169º class, he resigned and enrolled as a student of biological sciences of the University of Naples Federico II.

Graduated summa cum laude in March 1995, he spent one year of research work at CNR-ISPAIM institute of Ercolano, then in January 1997 he won a yearly research fellowship and he was assigned to the Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionelle et Evolutive, a CNRS institute of Montpellier. In this period, he performed research activity in the field of satellite and airborne remote sensing applications to environmental monitoring in collaboration with the Joint Research Center of the European Commission and DLR. He further collaborated with European Space Agency to the ENVISAT mission, and finally he participated as author to the Italian National Communication to Fight Desertification in the UNCCD framework.

Having abandoned his scientific career, in 1998 he moved to the pharmaceutical industry, where he held positions in Italy and abroad in marketing & sales for Abbott, Menarini, Takeda, Serono,Bristol-Myers Squibb, Allergan, and living between Florence, Rome and Dublin. In 2010 he moved to management consulting in Publicis Groupe, also in the pharmaceutical sector, working at global level for Healthware International as Strategy Director. Since 2014 he has been teaching Pharmaceutical Marketing and Management at Alma Laboris Business School in Rome. Between 2016 and 2020, he served as a Board Member of Select Milano, a conservative think-tank and business diplomacy initiative, with the mission to foster bilateral relations with the City of London after Brexit. In 2020 he started working as a contributor to the information security and technology magazine Infosec.news, founded by Umberto Rapetto.

He began publishing in the field of military history in 2016, making a monographic contribution to the history of the Nunziatella after discovering the lack of a name on the war memorial of the Academy inaugurated in 1920. In 2018, after five years of research, he published a biographical volume on General Armando Tallarigo, commander first of the 152nd Infantry Regiment and then of the Sassari Brigade during the First World War. In this work, presented at the International Festival èStoria in Gorizia, he brought back to historical reality the events narrated by Emilio Lussu in the volume Un anno sull'altipiano (One year on the High Plateau), and then taken up again in fictional form by Francesco Rosi in the movie Many Wars Ago (Uomini contro). In 2019 he published with historians Paolo Gaspari and Paolo Pozzato the encyclopedic volume The Italian Generals of Great War, C-Z (I generali italiani della Grande guerra, C-Z), an important contribution to the historiography of the First World War on the Italian Front, published in collaboration with the Historical Office of the General Staff of the Italian Army. The following year, he participated in the book La religione civile di un popolo (The Civil Religion of a People), dedicated to re-evaluating Italy's contribution to the Great War through the monuments that commemorate the fallen and to reinterpreting the First World War as a fundamental moment in the construction of the nation. The book attracted significant attention from the press and the RAI national television.

Since 2020 he has been a member of the Italian Society for Military History and his current research interests are focused on the history of the Carabinieri and the relationship between military hierarchies and Italian Fascism.

Activities

Employment (10)

Healthware Group Srl: Salerno, Campania, IT

2010-02-01 to present | Strategy Director
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Alma Laboris Business School: Rome, IT

2013 to 2023 | Professor of Pharmaceutical Marketing and Management
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Allergan: Dublin, IE

2009 to 2010 | Customer Relationship Manager (Sales)
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Bristol Myers Squibb: Rome, IT

2008 to 2009 | Product Manager (Marketing)
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Cantel (Italy) Srl: Pomezia, IT

2007 to 2008 | Scientific & Commercial Manager (Marketing & Sales)
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Abbott Laboratories: Campoverde di Aprilia, IT

2006 to 2007 | Group Product Manager (Marketing)
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Merck Serono (Italy): Rome, IT

2003 to 2006 | Product Manager (Marketing)
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Takeda (Italy): Rome, IT

2002 to 2003 | Senior Product Manager (Marketing)
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Menarini (Italy): Florence, IT

2001 to 2002 | Product Manager (Marketing)
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Abbott Laboratories: Napoli, IT

1998 to 2001 | Hospital Product Specialist (Sales)
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Education and qualifications (3)

University of Naples Federico II: Naples, Campania, IT

1996 to present | Professional qualification as a biologist (Facoltà di Scienze Biologiche)
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Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II Dipartimento di Biologia: Napoli, Campania, IT

1995-03-10 | Laurea in Scienze Biologiche (Facoltà di Scienze Biologiche)
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Scuola Militare Nunziatella: Napoli, Campania, IT

1984-09-29 to 1987-06-30 | Maturità classica
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Professional activities (6)

Ordine Nazionale dei Giornalisti: Rome, IT

2023-09 to present
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Società Italiana di Storia Militare: Roma, Lazio, IT

2020 to present
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Associazione Nazionale Ex Allievi Nunziatella: Napoli, Campania, IT

1987 to present
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CNRS: Montpellier, Languedoc-Roussillon, FR

1997-01-01 to 1997-11-30 | Research Fellow (Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionelle et Evolutive)
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Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II Dipartimento di Biologia: Napoli, Campania, IT

1997-01 | Research Fellowship
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Aeronautica Militare: Roma, Lazio, IT

1995-03 | Premio di Laurea
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Funding (3)

Research Fellowship in Satellite Remote Sensing for Environmental Monitoring

1997-01 to 1997-11 | Grant
University of Naples Federico II (Naples, Campania, IT)
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High School Merit Scholarship

1982 to 1987 | Grant
ENPAS (Rome, IT)
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Laurea Award

1995 | Award
Italian Air Force (Rome, IT)
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Works (10)

I capi e la loro preparazione morale alla funzione del comando

Antonio Stango Editore
2023 | Book
Contributors: Ferdinando Scala; Armando Tallarigo
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La Nunziatella nella Grande Guerra 1915-1918 - I generali

Associazione Nazionale Ex Allievi Nunziatella
2021 | Book
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I generali

La religione civile di un popolo : Carso, Redipuglia, Oslavia, il cimitero degli Eroi di Aquileia
2020 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 978-88-7541-710-9
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I generali italiani della grande guerra : atlante biografico. Vol. 2: C-Z

Gaspari Editore
2019 | Book
Part of ISBN: 978-88-7541-409-2
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Nutritional and metabolic derangements in Mediterranean cancer patients and survivors: the ECPC 2016 survey.

Journal of cachexia, sarcopenia and muscle
2019-04-05 | Journal article
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Il generale Armando Tallarigo: dalla leggenda della brigata Sassari al dopoguerra

Gaspari Editore
2018 | Book
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European survey of 907 people with cancer about the importance of nutrition

Annals of Oncology
2017-09 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0923-7534
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Il caduto dimenticato - La breve Grande Guerra di Federico Mensingher

Associazione Nazionale Ex Allievi Nunziatella
2016 | Book
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Le antenne di ricerca per il monitoraggio della desertificazione

Comunicazione Nazionale all'ONU per la Lotta alla Siccità ed alla Desertificazione
1999 | Book chapter
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Restoring abaptation

Trends in Ecology & Evolution
1997-08 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0169-5347
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