This section of the site illustrates the structure of the governance of the department. 

The department is driven by the Director, it represents the structure in all legal effects and guarantees its autonomy and cultural unity. He has the power of proposal regarding the allocation of resources and the preparation of the budget, within the framework of the organizational and administrative management aimed at carrying out scientific research, didactic and training activities, as well as the external activities related to them or ancillary. 

In order to pursue its institutional tasks, the Department is endowed with managerial and administrative autonomy in having its budget, based on choices entrusted to the "departmental community", which manages them through its own Bodies (Director, Council and Council) , in compliance with the provisions contained in the laws, in the University statutes and in the regulations, however excluding the possibility of general administrative provisions or relating to matters reserved to other bodies identified for this purpose by the statutes of Sapienza.

 All administrative acts, prepared by the Department Bodies, are adopted by the C.A.O  (Chief Administrative Officer) including those who directly engage the University externally, through delegated powers of expenditure and organization of human resources dedicated to administrative-accounting support activities