Dario Quintavalle
Justice Management Professional
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This page last updated: 20.12.2011

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Resumé:

Full name:

Cav. Dott. Dario QUINTAVALLE, m.a. 

Bio:

• Italian National.

• Single. Childless.

Education and trainings:

• Laurea (MA) in Law at University of Rome "La Sapienza"

• Master of Art in Innovation and Information Technology Management in the Public Administration  at Bologna University

• Certificate in Security Policy at Geneva Center for Security Policy

• Fast Stream Programme at Italian Civil Service College

• Military training as Navy Officer at Leghorn Naval Academy

General Professional experience:

• 18 years of overall professional experience of whom:

• 13 years of experience in the public sector (civil + military service);

• 10 years of professional experience as Court Administrator at MoJ

• 4 years experience as senior consultant in RoL and JHAS EU-funded projects and programmes in ENP, SAP, MENA, ACP, HIPC countries.

Currently:

• Rank: Senior Executive Officer, of the Ministry of Justice, Italy [UK Senior Civil Service Band A/Grade 6 equivalent].

• Paygrade # 2

• Position: Court Manager at "Tribunale di Sorveglianza di Roma" (Surveillance Court of Rome).

Geographical experience:

• Italy,

• Algeria,

• Albania,

• Democratic Republic of Congo,

• Belgium,

• Denmark,

• FYR Macedonia,

• Latvia,

• Switzerland,

• United Kingdom,

• Ukraine.

Key Qualifications:

• Managerial and leadership experience in the private and public sector, both on national and international level.

• Some experience with entrepreneurial start-up

• Organisational and planning skills

• Familiarity with IT

• Effective communication skills, fluency in written and spoken English and French as working languages

• Willingness to travel extensively

• Ability to relocate when necessary in any foreign country

I can combine a legal and managerial background, previous studies in Security Policy and International Relations, an international experience in transitional economies, with team competence, stress tolerance, inter-cultural awareness, and a proven ability to work cross-culturally.  My familiarity with Public Administration issues, my previous military training as Naval and Police officer, and my current job in the prosecutorial and Prison Surveillance branch of the Justice system, enable me to positively and fruitfully interact with civilian, police and military personnel.

Goals:

my aim is to develop my career in the International relations sector, focusing on the field of the Administration of Justice, Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law, European and Euromediterranean cooperation. This field has an enormous growing expectance, and offers a wide number of opportunities for people with managerial and legal skills trained with a cross-cultural and multidisciplinary approach.

Ministry of Justice of Italy
(2002-present)

Court Administrator:

2006 → present: Surveillance Court of Rome (Tribunale di Sorveglianza)

2007 → 2008:     Office of the Prosecutor General - Rome

2003 → 2006:     Office of the Public Prosecutor - Frosinone

2002 → 2003:     Court of Appeals of Trieste

My current Job as Court Manager @ Ministry of Justice :

As a Court Manager, my position involves administrative, managerial, and public relations work, with the responsibility for planning, organizing, staffing, coordinating, directing, and evaluating the administrative functions of a Jurisdictional Office of the Italian Republic (be it of the Judicial or the Prosecutorial branch), in strict coordination with a President of a Court or a Chief Prosecutor. 

As chief of human resources:

• I have the responsibility of supervisioning and training a work force of around 200 people including state employees (court’s clerks), judiciary police, and contract (and volunteer) personnel performing supervisory, technical, casework, security, and clerical functions. Occasionally, I may also be in charge of selecting and hiring people directly for temporary jobs.

• I have disciplinary power over all civil servants depending from the Ministry of Justice, for all misdemeanours, in the name of the Ministry.

• I’m as well responsible of occupational safety and health administration (Law 626);

• I’m the chief negotiator with Trade Unions for all local matters.

My administrative duties

involve the responsibility of ensuring:

• the use of appropriate and up-to-date technology and logistics;

• the maintenance of accurate court records;

• the timely scheduling and preparation of court hearings;

• the preparation, distribution and filing of court documents such as notices of decision, court orders and verdicts;

• the military security of the court buildings.

As financial and fiscal agent

I’m in charge:

• of e-procurement of capital goods and services;

• of the payment of justice expenses (reimbursement of witnesses, judicial police, experts, forensics, wiretappings) of which I’m responsible directly to the National Court of Auditors (fonctionnaire deleguée), and of the collection of justice fees.

My public relations work

include:

• ensuring the provision of courteous and professional assistance to all who use the court;

• representing my Office in maintaining effective work relationships with other Jurisdictional offices, the Bar, law enforcement agencies, representatives of the media, prison officers and social service agencies, local authorities such as the Mayor and the Government’s Provincial Representative (Prefetto);

• receiving foreign delegations and preparing the ceremony of the opening  of the Jurisdictional Year, ensuring the respect of the Protocol.

As local representative of the Ministry of Justice:

• My offices are also administrative branches of the MoJ on the territory, and as such, I have the duty to enforce orders of the Central Administration, and to provide citizens the issuing of public certifications.

• Occasionally, I may also superintend the organisation of public access exams for Barristers and Solicitors.

• My position requires that I regulate and discipline the activity of my offices with Executive Orders, which are given by law Regulatory Power and can only be challenged in an Administrative Court.

@ The Surveillance Court of Rome (2007 - on) :

The Surveillance Court of Rome website
 

is a national court in charge of the supervision of inmates and prisons. It has a nationwide competence over the prison regime applied to serious cases such as terrorism, mafia, drug trafficking, kidnapping, in coordination with the National Antimafia Prosecution Service. The Court was the first in Italy to make an extensive use of modern social media, such as Facebook and Twitter.

Read the annual Surveillance Court of Rome Business Plan (.pdf 2mb)

Work experience as a trainer:

@ Italian National School of Government:

[Scuola Superiore di Pubblica Amministrazione (SSPA)

with Center of Excellence Jean Monnet of the University of Rome II – Tor Vergata

and Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Project Supervisor: Prof. Federica Bindi - Brookings Institution

“Intensive Training Course for Afghani Civil Servants” (2010)

May 2011

This course was organized by the University of Rome Tor Vergata in cooperation with the Italian National School of Public Administration and the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in order to promote institutional ownership in Afghan Civil Reconstruction Process to 25 Senior Executives of the Afghani Government. The course took place in Rome, Florence and Caserta, from April 15 to June 9, 2011

I was in charge of organizing and conducting the module “Public management II (public management and ethics)”. 

 Here is the official video: you can see me between minutes 2:45 - 2:51

@ Italian National School of Government :

Mentor of Senior Executives Trainees

(Mentoring project)

September 2008 → December 2009

In the framework of the 4th Italian Senior Civil Service Fast Stream Programme [Quarto Corso Concorso di Formazione Dirigenziale] held at SSPA, I was asked to take part in an experimental formal mentoring programme. I was paired with some SSPA trainees destined to move up into Senior Civil Service, for a series of career-coaching interactions involving informal transmission of knowledge, experience, and psycho-social support. The mentoring relationship was carried out partly face-to-face on site, and partly with a dedicated e-learning platform.

Project supervisor: Prof. Marco Depolo, Pro Dean at University of Bologna

also see below:

• Taiex events

@ Ecole Nationale de Greffes - Algerie (2010):

• Algeria [2010]: Unité d'Appui au Projet de Réforme de la Justice en Algérie (see below)

 DARIO QUINTAVALLE

Dieci anni di esperienza manageriale come dirigente dello Stato nei ruoli del Ministero della Giustizia, attualmente incaricato del Tribunale di Sorveglianza di Roma. Laureato in Giurisprudenza all’Università di Roma, alumnus della Scuola Superiore di Pubblica Amministrazione, ha un Master in Gestione dell’Innovazione Tecnologica all’Università di Bologna e uno in Politiche della Sicurezza Internazionale al GCSP di Ginevra. Membro corrispondente dell’Institut des Hautes Etudes sur la Justice (IHEJ) di Parigi, e del Just-Pal Network della Banca Mondiale. Esperto internazionale in Court Management e formazione giudiziaria della Commissione Europea, ha  partecipato a diversi progetti e programmi di assistenza tecnica e cooperazione allo sviluppo, in Europa Orientale, nei Balcani, in Africa Equatoriale e nel Maghreb. Ha insegnato Public Management ed Etica alla SSPA di Caserta, e Tecniche di gestione dei servizi giudiziari presso l’Ecole Nationale des Greffes di Algeri, la State Court Administration of Ukraine, e la Procura Generale dell’Albania. È autore di un Manuale di Gestione Amministrativa per i tribunali dell’Ucraina, e del Masterplan per la nuova Scuola di Formazione per Magistrati e Personale Giudiziario (EFRPJ) della Repubblica Democratica del Congo.

L' esperienza geografica di lavoro comprende: Italia, Algeria, Albania, Repubblica Democratica del Congo, Belgio, Danimarca, FYR Macedonia, Lettornia, Svizzera, Regno Unito, Ucraina.  

Collabora a Lavoce.info

International Development Consulting in
Technical Assistance EU-funded Projects:

I occasionally do private consulting services as Senior Expert in Court Management in EuropAid-funded Rule of Law programs, or as Seconded National Expert in the framework of the TAIEX programme.  

Areas of expertise:

These areas span:

• Court Management
• Change management
• Civil Service and Justice Sector reform
• Financial management and budgeting
• Human resources management and development
• Public Management and Ethics

Projects I took part in: 

@ Ukraine [2008-2010]:

“Accountability and Effectiveness of the Ukrainian Judiciary Functioning, Civil Service Component Project (UJFP)”
( Прозорість та ефективність функціонування судової системи України: компонент державної служби )

UJFP was a major judicial reform project funded by the European Commission, TACIS program (EuropeAid/125611/C/SER/UA), and implemented by a Consortium led by WYG International, a socio-economic consulting firm implementing projects funded by international donors across the world. The project was based in Kyiv, Ukraine, and operated from 2008 to 2010. I took part to its activities through different assignments from the beginning to the end.

The project had the following objectives:

1. Improving the Legal Framework for Court Administration

2. Training Court Staff on Management and Professional Skills

3. Establishing Ongoing Programmes of Professional Development

4. Training State Enforcement Officers to Improve Enforcement

5. Publishing Compendia on Best Practices and Procedures

The specific objective of my assignment was, first, to analyze the legal framework governing court management practices and procedures, identifying those critical areas where reform was most needed, and developing recommendations for improvement, with due regard to EU standards
I also worked to develop comprehensive compendia on uniform standards and EU best practices, with practical guidelines for improving court management practices and procedures, focused on Heads of Court and Court Administrators.

@ Algeria [2010]:

Read my interview with an Ukrainian legal newspaper (English translation)

Read a Letter of Reference by the Team Leader of the UJFP Project (Kiev)

Unité d'Appui au Projet de Réforme de la Justice en Algérie

Since May to June 2010  I took part in the UAP - “Unité d'Appui au Projet de Réforme de la Justice en Algérie” project (EUROPEAID/119950/C/SV/DZ, MEDA II programme) with  Louis Berger Group Sas France and Ministère de la Justice d’Algérie. My task was to organize and conduct a series of seminars on “Court Management Techniques” for Algerian Court clerks .

@ Congo [2011]:

Programme d'Appui à la Gouvernance - Volet Justice (9 ACP ZR 025)

I've been with B&S in Kinshasa, Congo, for the project "Appui à l’Ecole de formation et de recyclage du personnel judiciaire et à la future Ecole nationale de la magistrature de la RDC".

In charge of building capacity of the Congolese Judiciary by drafting the statute, the masterplan, the training strategy and the budget of the new School for Judges and Court Clerks of RD Congo (EFRPJ - Ecole de Formation et Recyclage du Personnel Judiciaire)

Read a letter of commendation by the Advocate General of Nimes

TAIEX Expert :

@ Ukraine (2010 - 2011)

I’m a registered TAIEX expert. As such in 2010 and 2011 I held the following seminars in Ukraine, under the auspices of  the European Commission, DG Enlargment, and with the State Court Administration and the Academy of Judges of Ukraine as beneficiaries:

• "Workshop on Local and administrative courts management" (JHA 40497)

• “Workshop on Methods of collection and processing of statistic data in the courts of Ukraine. EU Standards.” (JHA 41347).

• "Workshop on Financial Management in Judiciary: Ukrainian Practice and European Standards" (INT MARKT 43289)

See some of my presentations:

• An Introduction to the European Common Assessment Framework  

• Citizen Oriented Governance 

• Customer Satisfaction in the Public Administration 
• Service Charters 
• The Italian Judiciary 
• Financing the Judiciary in Italy

@ Albania (2011):

Expert Mission on Managing Files at Prosecutors' Offices in Albania (JHA IND/EXP 46006). In Tirana, Albania, with the Albanian General Prosecution Office, July 2011.

@ FYR Macedonia (2011):

Workshop on the functioning of a Judiciary Supervisory Body  (JHA 46681) In Skopje, 13 – 15 December 2011 with Public Prosecutor's Council and Academy for Judges and Public Prosecutors of the FYR of Macedonia.

@ Italy:

In 2010 I organised a TAIEX study visit of a Turkish delegation to Italy on :

• "Principles and Procedures concerning Assignment of Convicts to Open Prisons" (JHA IND/STUD 43322).

Read: Letter of appreciation by the Deputy Head of the State Court Administration of Ukraine (2010)

EUPOL Afghanistan

In 2011 I was selected to act as Mentor/Adviser to the Afghani Ministry of Justice in the framework of the European Union Police Mission to Afghanistan (EUPOL).

So far, unfortunately, budgetary problems hampered the secondment from my Ministry.

Read the convocation letter

@ European Commission (2001) - Seconded National Expert

In 2001 I served as Detached National Expert (END) at the European Commission, DG TREN (Directorate General for Transport and Energy), in the team of M. Michaux, Head of the Maritime Policy and International Relations Unit. (TREN-G1). The mission of the Unit is to take care of the International Maritime Relations. One of my duties was to study the provisions of the draft Maritime Agreement between EU and China.

Read more about my European experience here
Read a letter of reference written by my Head of Unit

Education and Trainings:
 

@ SSPA - Scuola Superiore della Pubblica Amministrazione: (Italian National School of Government)

with:
Ecole Nationale d’Administration (France)

Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (France)

Krajowa Szkoła Administracji Publicznej (Poland)

Federal Academy of Public Administration (D) - Bakov

National School of Government (UK)

London School of Economics and Political Sciences (UK)

 etc.

1st ESCS "European Senior Civil Servant" course (2008)

In 2008. I had the opportunity to represent MoJ in the first pilot training course of the European Senior Civil Servant project, which is an initiative implemented within the framework of the Agreement between the Dipartimento della Funzione Pubblica (Italian Department of Public Administration) and the Scuola Superiore della Pubblica Amministrazione - SSPA (Italian Civil Service College), entitled “The promotion of coordinated initiatives to implement the Lisbon 2000 objectives for training senior civil servants from the Italian State and other European Union countries”.

It follows the experience of the Patent (Public Administration Training European Network for the Harmonization of Training Approach) Project funded by the Leonardo Da Vinci programme of the European Commission.

The aim of the project is to develop shared knowledge, key skills and competences among middle rank civil servants of National Public Administrations in order to increase and improve collaboration and civil servants mobility within the European Union countries.

Training included an e-learning part from Feb. 1st to 29th 2008, followed by an intensive 5-days course in Caserta  Italy in the period from March 3rd to 7th 2008 (24 hours e-learning followed by 27 hours in-class).
Germany, Greece, France, Bosnia Herzegovina, Macedonia, Albania, Uk, Poland, and several departments of the Italian Governemnt sent their participants, for a total of 27.

The training was organized by a consortium of European Civil Service Schools, on the basis of the “scientific curriculum of the European Senior Civil servant”, developed by a Scientific Committee of Experts.

Read the website.
Read the detailed training program.
Read the Diploma

@ Geneva Centre for Security Policy (CH):

19th International Training Course in Security Policy (2004-2005)

In 2004 I was invited by the Swiss Government to take part to the Nineteenth International Training Course in Security Policy (ITC19), held at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP), representing the Ministry of Justice of Italy. The course took place from the 4th October 2004 to 27th May 2005. There were 30 participants from 25 countries. The primary activity of the GCSP is to provide expert training in comprehensive international security policy for midcareer diplomats, military officers and civil servants.

  The ITC is an intensive 8 month course about the most important aspects of current international security policy. The course offered a broad overview of international security issues, with a special focus on the contemporary global security environment, including security concepts, the main actors (states and institutions) as well as emerging problems (e.g., proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, globalisation and international terrorism). The ITC is run by an international faculty composed of highly qualified academics and practitioners with broad experience in diplomacy and/or military affairs. Some 150 high-ranking diplomats, military officers, government officials and distinguished experts from across the Euro-Atlantic community and beyond, addressed the participants as Guest speakers all over the Academic Year. A particular focus of ITC 19 was to familiarise participants with modern working methods, negotiating tactics, leadership training, security policy decision-making, as well as drafting and briefing skills. Special courses and simulation exercises were conducted throughout the year to that end.

In the framework of the course, I did a presentation introducing Italian Security Policy, I prepared the week about Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law, and I was an advocate for Globalization in the week about world economics. I successfully finished my studies writing a Core Paper about the topic: “Is there a West?”

At the end of the course I was evaluated as "well suited for international assignments, either rapresenting Italy in a diplomatic role or within an international organisation"

  Read my final dissertation about "Is there a West?":

@ SSPA - Scuola Superiore della Pubblica Amministrazione: 
(Italian National School of Government)

2nd Senior Civil Service Fast Stream Programme (1999-2001)
[2° Corso Concorso di Formazione Dirigenziale]

Between 1999 and 2001 I was a Senior Executive trainee at the Italian National School of Government, a special branch of the Prime Minister's Cabinet Office in charge of the recruitment and training of the Senior Civil Service. Through an extremely selective national competition, I was granted a bursary to attend a 30-month fast stream experimental program of studies to enter Civil Service directly as Senior Executive with rank Director j.g.

Read the Curriculum of studies
Read my certificate

Academic Degrees:

Doctor Magistralis in Jurisprudence

University of Rome I – La Sapienza, Rome - 1985 → 1992

Level in national or international classification:

ISCED (International Standard Classification of Education) level →  5
ECTS (European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System) → 300 credits.

European University System (Bologna process) → MA degree equivalent
 

@ University of Bologna - Alma Mater Studiorum (2006):

Master of Art in Innovation and Information Technology Management in the Public Administration
 

University of Bologna (Alma Mater Università di Bologna) 2005 - 2006

Principal subjects covered: Project management. Information Technology. E-procurement.

Level in national or international classification:

European University System (Bologna process) → Master of Arts
ISCED (International Standard Classification of Education) level →  5
ECTS (European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System) → 62 credits

Military and Law Enforcement record:

@ Italian Naval Academy - Leghorn (1992):

88th Naval Officers Post-graduate Military Training Programme
(Accademia Navale di Livorno - 88° Corso AUC/L)

I served 15 months in the Italian Navy to fulfill MSO (Military Service Obligations). I won a national competion to enter the Naval Academy in Leghorn, where in 1992 I received my military training as an officer cadet through the fast stream 88th Naval Officers Post-graduate Military Training Programme. At the end of the training I was commissioned a Navy Officer, with the rank of Midshipman (Nato Code OF(D), in the Corps of the Port Captaincies – Coast Guard. After receiving Officer Commission, I was posted to the:

@ Coast Guard National Headquarters (1993)

in Rome: I served as Staff Officer in the NATO Control Point Situation Room during the embargo against former Yugoslavia. I was also Liaison Officer for foreign Navies delegations and member of the Italian delegation to the International Conference of St. Malo on Safety of Life at Sea.

The Corps of the Port Captaincies - Coast Guard is the coast guard of Italy. It is both part of the Italian Navy, and one of the five National Law Enforcement Agencies of Italy. As such I was both a Military and a Judicial Police officer.

Read my Navy page

In June 1993 I got promoted to the rank of Second Lieutenant / Ensign (Guardiamarina - NATO code OF- 1 j.g.). In 2005 I got promoted Lieutenant j.g. (Sottotenente di Vascello - NATO code OF-1senior grade) in the reserve role (Rapid Deployment Force) of the Navy, Coast Guards corps.

Membership of professional bodies:

• Permanent Member of the Governmental Conference of the Heads of Territorial Units of the State

• Italian State Executives Trade Union [Sindacato CIDA-UNADIS]. From 2004 to 2009: Member of the National Secretary Board. Chief negotiator to the Ministry of Justice. Webmaster of www.unadis.it and press and communications manager.

• Alumni Association of SSPA - webmaster of www.allievisspa.net  and responsible for communications sector.

• European Union Experts Association (Association of the ex temporary staff of the EU institutions).

• Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP) Alumni Network

• Roll of State Senior Executives - Ministry of Justice section (2003 - on)

• Rome Bar (1997-1999)

• International Association for Court Administration

• U.N.U.C.I - Military Reserve Officers Association of Italy

Languages:

• Italian (mother tongue)

• English (fluent) - working language

• French (fluent) - working language

• Russian (basic)

• German (basic)

Honors :

My page on the Presidency of the Republic's website

Cross of Knight of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic

(Cavaliere dell' Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana)

In 2007 I was knighted by the President of the Republic for outstanding contribution to the civil service

The 'Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana' is the highest ranking honour and most senior order of knighthood of the Italian Republic. It is awarded in five degrees for "merit acquired by the nation" in the fields of literature, the arts, economy, public service, social, philanthropic and humanitarian activities, and for long and conspicuous service in civilian and military careers.

Read the Proposal from the Ministry of Justice (english translation),
Read my page on the website of the Presidency of the Republic
Diploma of Cavaliere dell'Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana .

Press Coverage, Academic Quotations, Articles:

	Un “nido” tra le aule del tribunale Il Messaggero, Cronaca di Frosinone, Mercoledì 14 Aprile 2004
	Усі дороги ведуть до Рима, а моя – з Рима до Києва English Translation: All roads lead to Rome, mine led from Rome to Kiev Legal Weekly Ukraine, 2009
	My study “Is there a West?" was quoted in the book by Germano Dottori "Questioni di Pace o di Guerra" ('A matter of peace or war').
	Since November 2011 I'm a contributor to LaVoce.info, an opinion leading economic website. My articles: UN'AGENZIA PER UNA GIUSTIZIA EFFICIENTE (11.11.2011)

Bucy's Law: Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.