Francesco PALERMO Director, Institute for Studies on Federalism and Regionalism, European Academy, Bolzano; Professor, Comparative Public Law, Faculty of Law, University of Verona

since 2004	Professor, Comparative Public Law, University of Verona
	Director, EURAC-Institute for Studies on Federalism and Regionalism, Bolzano/Bozen
since 2007	Member (then First Vice President) Advisory Committee on the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities, Council of Europe, Strasbourg
2007-2010	Senior legal Adviser, OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, The Hague
since 2011	Full member, Group of Independent Experts, Congress of Local and Regional Authorities, Council of Europe, Strasbourg
since 2013	Senator, Italian Senate, Rome

Board of Directors of the International Association of Centers for Federal Studies (IACFS)
Vicepresident of the Euroregional association of public and European comparative law
General Editor of the European Yearbook of Minority Issues
Bar association, Bolzano/Bozen

Diritto costituzionale comparato dei gruppi e delle minoranze (with J. Woelk), 2. edizione ampliata e aggiornata, Cedam, Padova, 2011, 368 pp.
La forma di Stato dell Unione europea. Per una teoria costituzionale dell integrazione sovranazionale, Cedam, Padova, 2005, 285 pp
Die Außenbeziehungen der italienischen Regionen in rechtsvergleichender Sicht, Peter Lang, Frankfurt/M., 1999, 352 pp.
Germania ed Austria: Modelli federali e bicamerali a confronto. Due ordinamenti in evoluzione tra cooperazione, integrazione e ruolo delle seconde Camere, Trento, 1997, 555 pp.

Euroregion Tyrol – Value Creation through Innovation