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Padoa-Schioppa Emilio
PhD in Natural and Environmental Sciences, Associate Professor of Ecology, at the Department of Environmental and Earth Sciences, University of Milano-Bicocca. Habilitation as full professor on 28/11/2017.
He teaches Landscape Ecology (master's degree course in Science and Technology for the Environment and Territory); Planetary Boundaries as a basis for sustainability concepts, module Managing Impact on the Environment (master’s degree course in Economics and Technologies for Sustainability), Biology: fundamentals and teaching with laboratory, Didactics of Biology (Primary Education Sciences), Introduction to sustainability, Advanced Human Ecology -Sustainability through lens of historical sciences, Ecosystem Services (courses of the Doctoral School and the PhD course in Chemical, Geological and Terrestrial and Marine Environmental Sciences). From 2017 to 2020 deputy coordinator of the PhD in Chemical, Geological and Terrestrial and Marine Environmental Sciences. He chairs the Department's third mission and public engagement commission. In November 2023 he was appointed director of the course for teacher qualification. Class A28 (Mathematics and science for lower secondary school). In October 2025 he was also appointed as deputy president of degree course in Economics and Technologies for Sustainability.
The books published were: Metodi e strumenti per l'insegnamento e l'apprendimento della Biologia (Edises, 2014); Antropocene. Una nuova epoca per la Terra, una sfida per l'umanità (il Mulino, 2021); Storia ecologica dell'Europa. Un continente nell'Antropocene (il Mulino, 2023). All the books are published in Italian
Active in various scientific societies (IALE, IALE-Europe, SIEP IALE, Conservation Biology, Society Human Ecology, Societas Herpetologica Italica, Italian Society of Ecology), also holding managerial or executive roles. At the moment he is president of SIEP-IALE (Italian Society of Landscape Ecology). In 2019 he organized the 10th IALE world congress (Milan, July 2019), editor of several scientific journals (Sustainability, Geographies, Environmental Sustainability Indicators, Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens).
Smart green space management for resilient, sustainable and liveable cities
Luzi Lucia
Lucia Luzi, Ph.D., is a Senior Economist at the World Bank in Washington, DC, specializing in sustainable development at the nexus of environment, energy, water, and policy. She has over a decade of experience in research and impact evaluations, managing complex, large-scale projects, and supporting capacity-building programs for governments and statistical agencies, especially in high-risk climate contexts. Her expertise spans climate mitigation and adaptation, natural resource management, circular economy, survey methodology, and human capital, generating high-quality data to guide investments for vulnerable populations. Lucia previously held academic roles at Boston University and has taught Energy and Environmental Economics in Europe and the United States. She conducted research at Bocconi’s IEFE and FEEM, with policy advisory experience at UNEP and other international organizations. She holds a Ph.D. from Ca’ Foscari University (Visiting Scholar, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) and a BA (DES program) from Bocconi University.
Nature-based solutions for more sustainable cities
Florou Annita
Annita Florou is Professor of Accounting at Bocconi University. Prior to this, she held academic positions at London Business School, Queen Mary University of London and King’s College London. At Bocconi, she has been the Curriculum Coordinator of the Accounting PhD Programme and the Lead Faculty for the Transparency and Accountability research theme of the Bocconi Lab for European Studies (BLEST).
She is also an Academic Advisor to the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW); Editor of Journal of Business, Finance and Accounting; and an Editorial Board Member of Accounting and Business Research, British Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, Corporate Governance: An International Review and Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Public Policy.
Her research interests cover financial reporting regulation, auditor reporting and regulation, and more recently sustainability reporting and assurance. She has received research grants from several organisations and the European Union. Her research has been published in leading academic journals, including The Accounting Review and Review of Accounting Studies.