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Dr. Chiara Valentini is Assistant Professor at the Department of Business Communication at the Faculty of Business and Social Sciences, Aarhus University in Denmark. Previously she was a researcher at the University of Jyväskylä, in Finland where she gained her doctoral degree in Organizational Communication and Public Relations in February 2008. She holds a Master degree in Public Relations from the University of Udine in Italy.

At Aarhus University, Dr. Valentini teaches different courses in public/political communication, media relations, EU communications, public relations and marketing communications for the programmes in European studies and in Corporate Communication. She is also responsible for the coordination of the courses taught in the IMC & PR profile which is one of three specialisations available at the Master programme in Corporate Communication (English programme).

Dr. Valentini has worked for different international organizations and also consulted private organizations and public institutions in Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Italy and Switzerland, including the Italian Representation of the European Commission in Rome and the European Movement International Secretariat in Brussels.

Her research interests focus on public relations and relationships management; public/ political communication; public affairs and public diplomacy; new and social media; and the European Union. Results of her studies are frequently presented at the major international conferences in public relations and communication sciences (such as EUPRERA, ICA, IAMCR, IPPR, ECREA), some of which were also awarded international prizes (e.g. Institute for Public Relations, Reputation Institute). 

Dr. Valentini has written and co-written over 30 peer-reviewed publications, as well as 4 books, including the recent one Public Communication in the European Union: History, Perspectives and Challenges (Cambridge Scholar Publishing, 2010). Her research has appeared in internationally recognized journals such as Corporate Communication: an International Journal, Journal of Communication Management, Public Relations Review, International Journal of Strategic Communication, Journal of International Communication, Central European Journal of Communication, Global Media Journal: Mediterranean editions, PRism.

Dr. Valentini is member of the European Public Relations Education and Research Association (EUPRERA), International Communication Association (ICA), European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA). She serves as scientific reviewer for four internationally peer-review journals and reviews conference papers for the Public Relations and Political Communication Divisions of the Annual Conference of the International Communication Association.

Dr. Valentini is currently the Secretary of the Public Relations Division of the International Communication Association (ICA), one of the editorial board members of the Corporate Communication: an International Journal, and also one of the advisory members for the Center for Global Public Relations, at University of North Carolina at Charlotte, NC, USA.

Dr. Valentini also writes professional articles for magazines and PR associations such as FERPI newsletter and magazine (Italian Federation of Public Relations); Communication Director Magazine; Prima Comunicazione; Behind the Spin magazine.

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