Andrea Nardini holds a degree in hydraulic sanitary engineering from the Politecnico di Milano, Italy (1985). Then he specialised at the Department of Electronics of the same Politecnico with prof. Rodolfo Soncini-Sessa, in Systems Analysis applied to the management of natural resources (especially water resources), with particular emphasis on both real time management and planning decisional problems. He was research fellow and lecturer in a number of national and international specialized courses. In the period 1993-1996 he was responsible for the engineering research group at the interdisciplinary, international, environmental research centre EULA, at the Universidad de Concepción (Concepción, Chile), where he also held the engineering course “Quantitative planning and management of natural resources”. In 1999 he was co-founder of CIRF. He collaborated in a number of international research projects, and worked on a number of rivers among which the Biobio in Chile, the Nile in Egypt and the river Po and Arno in Italy. He was senior-expert member of the task force appointed by the Italian Ministry of Environment to ensure the fulfilment of environmental sustainability in the implementation of the programme of structural funding of the European Union 2002-2006. He published several technical and scientific papers and CD ROM on national and international journals, together with a some monographs and books.
He is currently member of the directory board of CIRF and has got the charge of Technical Director. He is senior consultant of the environmental research centre Ambiente Italia, Milano and Rome.
His main activity is applied research and consultancy, at national and international levels, to support public organizations and research centres on approaches, methods and tools to solve environmental problems (particularly related to water resources and river basin management), involving: environmental issues, decision making, sustainable development, developing countries, interest conflicts. His approach is highly multi-disciplinary, ranging from System Analysis (mathematical modelling, Decision Analysis, information technology), environmental economics (integrated evaluation, development policies), environmental sciences, to social sciences (communication, public participation, conflict resolution, value analysis).