Since April 2026, he serves as President of the Executive Committee of the Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, where he has also been a member of the Board since 2021.

From 2016 to 2022, he was Rector of Bocconi University, and since 2022 he has been President of the Fondazione Human Technopole. A Full Professor of Business Administration and Management, Gianmario is an expert in innovation and technology management, subjects on which he has published more than 100 articles and 7 monographs. He is currently Associate Editor of the Strategic Management Journal, the leading academic journal in the field of strategic decision-making. Between 2007 and 2013, he was Winter Term Visiting Professor at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College and, between 1997 and 1998, Visiting Scholar at the Center for Innovation in Product Development at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In 2022, he was awarded the “Grandi Guglie” prize by the Centro Studi Grande Milano, and in 2023 he was appointed to the Romeo and Enrica Invernizzi Chair in Innovation Management at Bocconi University.