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Mattia Fochesato (Ph.D., Economics) is Assistant Professor of Economic History, Bocconi University. His research focuses on the long run determinants of income and wealth distribution across different world regions. In particular, he is currently working on the impact of climatic and agricultural changes on global wealth inequality in prehistory and the effects of plague epidemics on the late medieval and early modern European labor markets.

Alexandros Kentikelenis is associate professor at Bocconi’s Department of Social and Political Sciences. He has written extensively on global financing for the green transition and on how global economic governance institutions can support decarbonisation objectives. 

Myriam Mariani is a Full Professor of Applied Economics at the Department of Management and Technology at Bocconi University. She earned a Ph.D. from Marche Polytechnic University and completed a two-year postdoc Marie Curie fellowship at MERIT (Maastricht Economic Research Institute on Innovation and Technology). Her research explores the micro-foundations of research productivity, with a focus on the mechanisms that drive knowledge spillovers across and within geographical areas.

Sara Bricchi holds a double degree in the management of cultural industries and creative business processes. Since 2009, she has been working with Bocconi University, where she is an Academic Fellow and teaches within the university's tourism courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. She gives speeches and conducts research and consultancy primarily on destination marketing and management, hospitality analytics, trends in travel demand and supply, policy, and digital strategies for the industry. She is a Certified Advanced Hospitality and Tourism Analyst and authorized trainer (CAHTA) for CoStar SHARE Center certifications. She is also the author of publications on luxury tourism and wine and food tourism. For 15 years, she has been the Academic Tutor at the Master in Tourism Economics and Management (MET), where she was responsible for program tutoring and coordination, as well as maintaining relationships with employers.

Cristina Mottironi is a Tenured Lecturer of Tourism Development and Destination Management at Bocconi University and SDA Bocconi. She leads the Tourism Major within the MSc in Economics and Management of Arts, Culture, Media, and Entertainment (ACME) at Bocconi. She has served as a visiting professor at Temple University (USA) and various Italian universities. Her academic focus includes tourism destination development, sustainable tourism, and the visitor economy. A member of IFITT - International Federation for IT and Travel & Tourism, she consults on tourism development projects for public entities and organizations. She was also delegate of the Italian Ministry of the Environment at the Alps Convention and served on the boards of Centro Internazionale di Arte e Cultura Palazzo Te in Mantova and Fabilia Group SpA. She holds a PhD in Tourism Management from the University of Surrey (UK).

I am Assistant Professor at Bocconi University, Department of Management and Technology. I am also Research Affiliate at ICRIOS and GREEN Bocconi, and Visiting Staff at the LSE's Department of Geography and Environment.
My research investigates the dynamic relationship between location characteristics and individual decision-making processes. Specifically, I am interested in understanding how individual decisions relate to the geography of production, innovation, and entrepreneurship, and how these connections impact individuals, organizations, and society. A second strand of my research focuses on diversity within organizations and across different spatial contexts.
My work has been featured in the Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, the Journal of Economic Geography and Research Policy, among others. I serve on the Editorial Review Board of Organization Science. I am also Reps-at-Large for the Knowledge & Innovation Interest Group of the Strategic Management Society (SMS).

Rosalba Famà is a lawyer and holds a PhD in legal studies from Bocconi University summa cum laude. Her research interests attain the budget of the EU, the Economic and Monetary Union, and how the EU can mobilize its financial architecture for the green and digital transition and for steering Member States' behaviors. She is currently a research fellow at the Bocconi Lab for European Studies and an academic fellow at Bocconi University, where she teaches EU law at the Bachelor in Global Law. In 2023, her research on European finances earned the recognition of a grant offered by the European Court of Auditors. Rosalba is also a selected member of the Spinelli Forum German-Italian Young Leader Forum and a recognized expert in geopolitics by ISPI (Institute of International Political Studies).

Jan David Bakker is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Bocconi University and a Research Associate at the Centre for Economic Performance. Prior to joining Bocconi, he was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at University College London and obtained his DPhil/PhD from the University of Oxford. His main research interests and publications are in the fields of international, urban and environmental economics. His work on international trade and regional inequality has received several awards including the WTO Essay Award for Young Economists.