PhD, SPRU, University of Sussex – is the Rector of LUISS University (I). He is a Full Professor of Organization Theory and Innovation and a Visiting Professor at Rotterdam School of Management (NL). Andrea holds the International Chair in Project Studies at BI Norway.

He has held academic positions at SPRU, INSEAD (F), and University G. d’Annunzio (I) and has been a Visiting Professor at SPRU and Imperial College Business School. Andrea is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Management Studies. Additionally, he sits on the editorial board of Industrial and Corporate Change, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, International Journal of Project Management, Research Policy and Long Range Planning.

Andrea’s research interests revolve around the organization of innovation; project-based organizations; and the relationships between regional social capital and firms’ innovation performance.

He has published articles on these subjects in management and organisation journals – e.g. Administrative Science Quarterly and Organization Science – and in major innovation journals – e.g. Research Policy, Industrial and Corporate Change.

Is professor of economics at LUISS and a research fellow EIEF and CEPR. His main areas of interest are industry dynamics, productivity and entrepreneurship. He obtained his B.A. in Bocconi in 1992 and his PhD in Economics at Stanford in 1998.  Before moving to academia, he worked at the research department of the Bank of Italy until 2006. He has consulted for the EU, the ECB, the Bank of Italy and the Italian Government on issues related to industrial policy.  His work has been published in leading academic journals, among which the Journal of Political Economy, The American Economic Review, the Review of Economic Studies and The Review of Financial Studies.

Is Associate Professor in Information Systems and Organization at the Department of Business and Management at LUISS. He teaches courses on Digital Transformation, Business Organization, Digital Business and Workplace Technologies and Cybersecurity at PhD, Master and bachelor level. He is the scientific responsible of the new Bachelor in Management and Data Science, the Master in Cybersecurity, the Summer Program Digital Disruption Management, the Digital Skills Lab and executive programs in Management and IT governance (EMIT), Management of IoT and Industry 4.0 (MIOT) and Strategic Affairs at the Business School and School of Government.

His research focuses on the architectural and emergent aspects of digital innovation with a special focus on cybersecurity, collaboration and IS design. He is interested in organizational change and information infrastructures. On these topics ha has edited three books and published over 80 peer-reviewed articles in outlets such as JIT, JSIS, I&M, CAIS, ICIS, among others.