Curriculum Vitae et Studiorum

Dr. habil. rer. pol. Oskar Peterlini, PhD                                

• Contract Professor at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (since 2011),
•  Public Law, at the Bachelor course in Economics and Management; Theories of Communication, at the Bachelor course in Communication and Cultural Studies,

• Guest professor at the University of Rostock
• Senator of the Italian Republic, MP (2001-2013)

1.     Publications

About Constitutional Law, Regional and Autonomy Law, Federalism, Electoral Systems and Electoral Law, Pension Systems:

https://unibz.academia.edu/OskarPeterlini,

Citations: 429

Hirsch h-index: 14

i10 index: 16

https://scholar.google.it/citations?user=KSAkAI0AAAAJ&hl=de (20.05.2025)

2.     Academic degrees

2023: Dr. rer. soc. oec. habil, Habilitation (Facultas docendi) at the Faculty of Political and Administrative Sciences of the University of Rostock (Habilitation thesis on Autonomy as a Peace Solution, Colloquium on Electoral Law and Systems, Challenges for a Participatory Democracy), University of Rostock (Germany, 20)

2011: PhD, Research Doctorate under Italian law by the Ministry of University and Research (MIUR, decree 15.6.2011) (based on the Austrian doctorate, additional studies and a research thesis on the Impact of Electoral Systems on Minorities).

2010: Doctorate at the University of Innsbruck (Dissertation on the Effects of Constitutional Reforms on the South Tyrolean Autonomy Statute), a constitutional law thesis,

1980: Master's degree at the University of Innsbruck, Economics and Social Sciences, (Thesis on Ethnic Proportional Representation in South Tyrol).

Languages: German (first language), Italian (C2), English (C1). Japanese (A1) Spanish (A1).

3.     Institutional career

2001-2013 Senator of the Italian Republic MP, Club Chairman of the Parliamentary Group "Per le Autonomie", Delegate in the Central European Initiative and President of its Cultural Commission, Member of various Parliamentary Committees, including the Constitutional Committee, participation in the reform debates of the Constitution and the Electoral Code with his own draft laws: https://www.senato.it/export/senator/full/16/00017624

1978-1998 Member of the South Tyrolean and Regional Parliament for Trentino South Tyrol,

From 1988 to 1998 its President (and alternately Vice-President), 1983 to 1993 President of the Parliamentary Commission for the Economy, Budget and Finance; https://www.academia.edu/31434675/Oskar_Peterlini_-_Politik_und_Erfolge_Politics_and_Success_Politica_e_Conquiste

4.     Studies and other experiences

1995-2001 Ideator, founder and project leader of the regional pension system PensPlan, Laborfonds and Plurifonds, and the Savings management company PensPlan-Invest-AG: http://www.pensplan.com/de/default.asp, https://www.laborfonds.it/de/

1998-2000 Specialisation in "Portfolio Management and Financial Analysis" at the Institute of Finance in New York; State examination as Investment Advisor (28.11.2000), registered in the Professional register at the Italian Securities and Exchange Commission CONSOB.

1978-1981 Founder and manager of the Advertising Agency “OP-Werbung”.

1973-1978 Teacher of Public and Civic Sciences at the Commercial Highschool and the Professional School in Bozen Bolzano,

Since 1972 journalistic activity, responsible director of various media, Journalist-Publicist registered in the Professional Register

1971 Humanistic Matura at the Grammar school (Gymnasium) “Walther von der Vogelweide” in Bozen-Bolzano, Law and Economics studies in Modena and Innsbruck,

5.     Guest lectures at national and international level

Rostock (2022-2025), Budapest (2014, 2024), Trieste (2014), Rome (2013), Innsbruck (2020), Macau (2007), Vienna (2007), Innsbruck (2007) (2005), Oradea (2006), Hong Kong (2005), Rostock (2022-2025)

https://unibz.academia.edu/OskarPeterlini

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oskar_Peterlini