Alberto Forchielli is Founding Partner of Mandarin Advisors. He owes his strategic abilities to his 45+ years of management experience in international development, with a particular focus on SEA (South East Asia), US and China.
Throughout the course of his multifaceted professional career, in addition to being Special Advisor to the Italian Minister of Defence, to the Italian Minister of Budget and Southern Italy and to the Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs, he worked for the World Bank for three years, first in Washington DC and then separately via the European Investment Bank in Luxembourg. He lived in Singapore for 5 years prior, where he was the head of Finmeccanica S.p.A for the Asia/Pacific region. He has been a member of the China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) advisory board in Shanghai.
He was co-founder of Mindful Capital Partners (MCP, previously Mandarin Capital Partners). As managing partner, he was board member of many portfolio companies and responsible for strategy and overseas business expansion.
In the early nineties, as secretary general for the privatization of IRI, Forchielli managed the sale of twenty state-owned companies in diverse sectors.
His career began in Boston (USA) with the MAC Group/Gemini Consulting. He lived and worked in Boston, London, Santiago, Lima, Milan, and Rome until he became the founder and administrator of the Italian branch.
Alberto Forchielli received an MBA with honors from Harvard Business School and a bachelor’s cum laude in economics from the University of Bologna. He speaks fluent Italian, English, French, and Spanish. He has also spent significant amounts of time living in Buenos Aires, Luxembourg, Kuala Lumpur, Beijing, Shanghai, Munich, and Turin. He currently divides his time between Bologna, Bangkok, Hong Kong and Boston.
At the moment, he also deals with dynamics and themes related to the global labor market, as well as talent and skills management on an international level with particular emphasis on the challenges youth face and professional training. During 2024 and 2025 he was the Lecturer of MIB (Master in International Business) – Executive Class “Asia: The Changing Landscape” at the Cattolica University in Milan and in 2025 he is the Lecturer of Master in Business Management “Internationalization of Companies” at the Bologna Business School in Bologna.
Long regarded as an economics expert, he writes for Il Sole 24 Ore and also has an active his personal blog (www.albertoforchielli.com). He is a regularly interviewed by Italian and foreign TV and newspaper like Class CNBC, Fanpage.it, Formiche, Ansa, Huffington Post, La Stampa, Forbes Italia, Corriere della Sera, Radio 24 e Radio Radicale.
