With a long and distinguished career in public service, cultural management, and education, Dr. Bruno Bernardi’s work has focused on Change Management and Governance in a wide variety of organizations, including the private sector, nonprofits, and public bodies. His sought-after expertise has been influential in the performance evaluation of multiple cultural organizations, with emphasis on the integration of the economic, financial, organizational, and behavioral profiles.Currently, Professor Bernardi’s consultancy work includes also: developing relationship between art and business innovation; brand equity evaluation; implementing accounting unbundling techniques in energy market regulation; management education.

Throughout his academic career, Professor Bernardi has always linked the business and artistic sides of cultural creation. He has been member of the Regional Advisory Commission on Museums, upon nomination by the Foundation of the Universities of Veneto (Fondazione Univeneto). His current positions of public importance include: member of the Board of Directors of the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, which manages eleven Venetian museums, including the Palazzo Ducale; President of the Board of Statutory Auditors of the Francesco Malipiero Musical Foundation; and President of the Bevilacqua La Masa Institution of Venice, a historic organization in support of the artistic production of young talent, upon nomination by the Mayor of Venice.

He served as Associate Professor of Business Economics at the Department of Management of the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, where he taught the curricular courses of Business Economics; Governance of Cultural Organizations; and Cost Accounting. Professor Bernardi is also head of the Planning and Control area in the Master of Environmental and Cultural Goods Management, (MABAC) a collaboration between Ca’ Foscari University and the Ecole Superieure de Commerce de Paris. His more recent publications include:

- “Models and good practices of management control systems in Italian museums”, a presentation of the main evidences enlighted by the research issued by Assocontroller, Pietro Marigonda and Vincenzo Sforza co-authors,  Palazzo Ducale, Venice, 2024;

- “Social Capital and Territorial Development” in Un piano per Venezia: i cittadini e il territorio, curated by Fulvio Caputo, Danilo Gerotto, Anteferma Edizioni,  2020, pag. 117-122;

- “Management Control Systems in Italian Universities”, Vincenzo Sforza, Pietro Marigonda and Alberto Domenicali co-authors, in Management Control, n.3 2019.