Elio Vera, fondatore e presidente onorario del CESMA-Centro Esperienze e Studi di Management e Amministrazione (Milano), Presidente del Comitato Tecnico Scientifico di AFORISMA Business School (Lecce), dal 1994 al 2009 Consigliere ASFOR, Associazione per la Formazione Manageriale, dal 2003 al 2009 componente del Comitato di Accreditamento Master ASFOR, attualmente revisore nei processi di accreditamento master per ASFOR, EFMD e CEEMAN. Membro Emerito di EFMD, European Federation for Management Development, ha fatto parte dello steering committee internazionale che dal 1995 al 1998 ha lavorato alla creazione del sistema di accreditamento EQUIS ed è ora Corporate Reviewer nei Peer Review Team per EPAS Accreditation Process. Dal 2006 al 2009 Consigliere di SIETAR EUROPA, associazione per lo scambio, la ricerca e l’aggiornamento in ambito interculturale, è membro dell’Editorial Board di CROSS CULTURAL MANAGEMENT, rivista trimestrale edita dalla casa editrice inglese EMERALD www.emeraldinsight.com destinata alle business schools e alle università di tutto il mondo con il ruolo di Executive Corner Editor. Membro di ISPSO-International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations, di OPUS-Organisation for Promoting Understanding of Society, di The Renaissance Link, di AIDP-Associazione per lo Sviluppo delle Risorse Umane, è componente del comitato di redazione di “Direzione del Personale” incaricato di reperire contributi innovativi di esperti HRD che operano all’estero. Socio AIF, Associazione Italiana Formatori, di cui è stato per molti anni consigliere nazionale, per 3 anni vice presidente nazionale e per 6 anni presidente di AIF LOMBARDIA. Co-fondatore e presidente di ETDF-European Training and Development Federation, ne è statovicepresidente. Nel 2013 è stato cofondatore di APAFORM – Associazione professionale ASFOR per la Formazione, di cui è consigliere – Nel maggio 2022 è stato nominato Chair of the Ethics and Professional Standards Committee (Governance 2022-2025 e Bylaws Change) di IAGP, International Association for Group
Psychotherapy and Group Processes.
Elio VERA studied economics and spent 20 years working in marketing in multinational companies: Henkel, UNILEVER, CPV-Colman Prentis and Varley, Y&R-Young & Rubicam and Chesebrough-Pond’s. Co-founder, director and now honorary president of CESMA Executive Education based in Milan, he is also former president of the Technical Scientific Committee of AFORISMA Business School, based in Lecce. From 1997 to 2015, he was a member of the board of ASFOR, the Association of Italian Schools of Management, in charge of International Relations and coordinating research on diversity in the workplace. Emeritus member of EFMD, in the late 90s Elio was part of the European steering committee that started EQUAL.
Elio has frequently been a member of Peer Review Teams for EFMD-EPAS, CEEMAN and ASFOR, often as president of the team. As an inter-culturalist, he trains international executives in Italian Managerial Culture. Elio is former Executive Corner Editor of CROSS CULTURAL MANAGEMENT, published by EMERALD, UK. Consultant for transition processes in SMEs, especially family businesses, he has worked as a consultant on executive education and on organisational topics in Bulgaria, Peru, Russia, Spain, and Switzerland.
Elio specialises in advising corporate executives on group relations and organisational development according to the Tavistock Model, especially regarding questions of authority, leadership and innovation. Since 1998, Elio has worked with the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust in organising the annual Group Relations Conference in Italy. In 2017 he qualified as Managerial Specialist Trainer, EQF 7 level, accredited by APAFORM, according to the specifications of the European Qualifications Framework. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Qualifications_Framework.
In May 2022 Elio has been elected member of the Governance of IAPG International Association for Group Psychotherapy and Group Processes as Chair of the Ethics and Professional Standards Committee (Governance 2022-2025 and Bylaws Change).