Pasquale Lucio Scandizzo holds a Ph.D. in Agriculture and Resource Economics from the University of California, Berkeley and has widely published on a variety of topics of theoretical and applied research concerning economic development, real option theory, and the evaluation of risk and uncertainty. He is presently Professor of Economic Policy and Member of the Board of Fondazione CEIS Economia at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Member of the Governing Council of ISTAT, Economic Policy Consultant for the World Bank and Managing Director , Real Options International, Washington D.C. . Formerly Director of CEIS, he has been a Senior Economist with the World Bank, President of the Italian Institute for Economic Planning, Member of the National Planning Board, Senior Adviser of the Parliamentary Budget Committee, and President of the Foundation of the Salerno Saving Bank . With a wide experience in designing, monitoring and evaluating major investment projects funded by national and international organizations, he is an expert in planning, project evaluation and private sector financing with extensive international advisory experience (World Bank, FAO, IDB, UNIDO, and several country governments and NGO’s).

Federico Perali is Full Professor of Economic Policy at the University of Verona, where he teaches Economic Policy, Development Economics, and Negotiation Theory at both the Master’s and PhD levels. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison (USA). He has served as a consultant to the World Bank, the European Investment Bank, FAO, OECD, the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, UNICEF, the Italian Commission on Poverty, ISMEA, and Telecom Italia. His main research interests include the estimation of the cost of children and disability, poverty and inequality, intra-household resource allocation, family policies, the valuation of unpaid domestic work, family firms, micro- and macro-models of family economic policy, the effectiveness of the ISEE (Equivalent Economic Situation Indicator), the causes of youth crime, and the analysis of choices related to tertiary education and the adoption of student loan schemes. He is a member of the Scientific Committee of the Inter-University Research Centre CHILD (Center for Household, Income, Labour and Demographics), the International Centre for Economic Development (ICID), and the “Centro Studi e Ricerche sulla Famiglia” at the Catholic University of Milan. He is the author of numerous international publications and books in the fields of family economics, welfare, and human development. Until 2006, he coordinated the International PhD Program in Economics and Finance at the University of Verona. From 2006 to 2012, he served as Director of the Department of Economics at the same university. From 2014 to 2015, he was Director of the Doctoral School in Legal and Economic Sciences. In 2016, he founded the Economics Living Lab, an accredited spin-off of the University of Verona. Since 2021, he has been the founder and a member of the Board of the “Negotiate to Mediate” (NEG2MED) Center at the University of Verona. Since 2021, he has been President of the Italian Association of Development Economists (SITES) (https://www.sitesideas.org). Since 2024, he has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Don Calabria Multipurpose Centre Foundation (ETS), dedicated to disability care.

Alessandro Sapio has been a Full Professor since 2017. He is the Coordinator of the Master's Degree in International Business Administration and Management (since 2022). Previous experience: He was an Associate Professor (2016-2017) and a Researcher (2007-2015) at the same university. He has held visiting professorships at the University Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne and the European Business School in Paris. He was the Coordinator of the Doctorate in Economics, Management & Accounting for the 36th and 37th cycles. Editorial roles: He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Italian Economic Journal (since 2023) and Associate Editor of Economia Politica (since 2016), international peer-reviewed journals published by Springer. Research and Publications: His main areas of interest are energy markets, climate change, and industrial dynamics. He has published extensively in international journals such as Industrial and Corporate Change, the Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Ecological Economics, Energy Policy, and Energy Economics. He has coordinated numerous research projects, including FENICE-Fragile Elderly and eNergy in Italian Consumption Empirics, a cascade call within the extended PNRR Age-It partnership; and the local unit of the TNE-DeSK project for international faculty and student mobility, in partnership with universities in South America, the non-EU Balkans, and Turkey. Teaching and Third Mission: He teaches subjects in the scientific-disciplinary field of Economic Policy at various levels (PhD, Master's, and Bachelor's degrees). He is active in outreach (third mission), regularly contributing to the Rienergia portal with analyses on the electricity system and the energy transition. He has served on numerous scientific and organizational committees for international conferences (e.g., EAEPE, Energy Finance Italia, AIEE) and has curated sessions for the dissemination of editorial practices at the annual scientific meetings of the SIE-Italian Society of Economics.

Riccardo Scarpa is an applied economist who was educated at the Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison (M.A.1995, Ph.D.1999), with a first degree (Laurea) in Agricultural Science from the University of Tuscia, Italy (1988) and an MSc in Environmental Impact Assessment from University College of Wales, Aberystwyth (1990). In 1998 he was appointed as an R.A. in Newcastle and then as a lecturer (in Newcastle 2000 and in York 2001). In 2005 he was appointed as full professor at the Waikato Management School in NZ, where he still has academic involvement. In 2012-2014 he held the Gibson Chair in Environmental, Rural and Food Economics at Queens University Belfast. Since 2014 he has held an associate professorship at the University of Verona at the Management Dpt. Ric has acted as an expert for several national and international funding agencies as evaluator of research grant proposal. He has also acted as external and internal member of several promotion and PhD examination committees, including a role as OECD member of the “Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale” in Public Economics and Finance (sector 13/A3) for the Italian Government in 2013-14. Since 2022 he has the Italian full professor habilitation in the sector of Public Finance and Agricultural Economics and Rural Appraisal.