The Chief Knowledge Officer (CKO) and knowledge workers play a fundamental role in setting and implementing the university’s knowledge agenda, but they are not a relevant subject for discussion in the scientific community. In order to try to reduce this gap, the aim of the research was to verify the existence or not within the Italian universities of the CKO figure. The purpose, specifically, is to examine, through a survey through the institutional sites of a sample of Italian universities, the existence or otherwise of the CKO figure and how it carries out its activities. The survey was carried out through the acquisition of documentary information found on the internet. The activities carried out by the various universities were taken into consideration through the analysis of their websites. The analysis, in particular, was conducted by examining the first no. 39 state universities present in the Censis ranking of Italian universities. The main results showed that the figure of the Chief Knowledge Officer is not present in the survey sample studied, consisting of 39 universities. Although it was possible to find, within these analyzed universities, the presence of two offices in two different universities that deal with knowledge management, it is not well understood, specifically, whether their activities are attributable or not to those of the CKO.