Gianmaria Ajani

Full Professor of Law at the Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning, and past Rector of the University of Turin. Co-founder of the journal "Brill Research Perspectives in Art and Law".  Doctor h.c. from the Université de Savoie, he is Guest Professor at the University of Bergen, Norway, and Honorary Professor at the Shanghai Normal University, PRC. His research interests are centered on legal reforms and economic performance, artists’ rights, law & technology.

Sara Bonini Baraldi

Associate Professor of Management at the Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning, her research concerns public administration reform in the cultural heritage and the link between art, culture, and local territories. Formerly at the University of Bologna, she co-founded the GIOCA Research Group and directed the GIOCA program. She has led international projects on cultural heritage management across several countries and collaborated with OECD and Italy’s Ministry of Culture on cultural tourism. 

Martina Dattilo

Assistant Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics and Statistics "Cognetti de Martiis", with a PhD from Université de Rennes I and past experience as a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham. Her research focuses primarily on cultural economics, with additional interests in public economics, public choice, and experimental economics. She has several publications on cultural economics and UNESCO, with the main paper she co-authored being: “More is Worse: Decreasing Marginal Quality of the UNESCO World Heritage List".

Sergio Foà

Full Professor of Administrative Law at the Law Department, Director of the Postgraduate Course in "Integrated Compliance in Public and Private Companies", Data protection officer of the University of Turin. Member of the teaching board of the PhD in Rights and Institutions of the University of Turin. He focuses on administrative law through specialised courses such as "Administrative Law of Cultural Assets and Activities". He has published extensively on law and public administration.

Alberto Oddenino

Associate Professor of International Law at the Law Department, is Coordinator of the Diploma in Law and Technology and Deputy Director of the Master in 'Cultural Property Protection in Crisis Response'. He coordinates the Moot Courts for the same Department. He is also Secretary General of SIOI (Piemonte and Valle d’Aosta, and a Full Member of the Sanremo International Institute of Humanitarian Law. He has published extensively with particular reference to the relation between international law, EU law, the Internet, Big Data and Artificial Intelligence.

Francesca Silvia Rota

Associate Professor of Economic Geography at the Department of Economics and Statistics "Cognetti de Martiis", she serves on the AISRe Board and collaborates with Centro Einaudi, and IRES Piemonte. With a background in geography and  architecture, and a PhD in Territorial Planning, her research spans local development, sustainability, and resilience. She has led and participated in several national and EU projects, focusing recently on territorial development in peri-rural and mountainous areas.

Carlo Salone

Full Professor of Economic Georgaphy at the Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning, he is member of the Board of the PhD 'Urban and Regional Development', and co-directs the Master "World Heritage and Cultural Projects for Development". A former visiting scholar at multiple French universities, he has published widely on urban and regional development. His work has had a substantial impact on urban regeneration and heritage enhancement, with numerous contributions both nationally and internationally.

Elia Acciai

Elia is a PhD candidate in the 'Vilfredo Pareto' PhD in Economics program at the University of Turin and Collegio Carlo Alberto, supported by a four-year scholarship. He holds an MSc in Economics, Markets, and Financial Institutions from the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Milan, where he graduated with honors, and a BSc in Economics and Business from the University of Florence. He has research experience as a pre-doctoral assistant at the University of Turin on projects related to illicit trade of cultural goods. He also worked as a research assistant at Lavoce Info and interned with Accenture in their banking strategy and consulting division.

Milena Barbis Fischetti

Milena is a PhD candidate in 'Peace Studies' at the University la Sapienza in Rome, researching illicit trafficking of cultural property as a terrorism financing source. She manages daily operations for the international Master's in Cultural Property Protection in Crisis Response at Coripe Piemonte. Milena earned a Master's degree in Economics of Environment, Culture, and Territory from the University of Turin, specializing in 'Economics and Policies of Culture' with a thesis on illicit trafficking of Italian cultural goods. She also completed a Master's in Art Market Law and Taxation at 24ore Business School and held internships and a research fellowship at the Santagata Foundation and the University of Turin, respectively, contributing to the ‘UNESCO Cluster’ project.

Nour Bou Salman

She is a PhD candidate in 'Innovation for the Circular Economy' at the University of Turin, focusing on the 'Economics of Climate Change.' She holds a master's degree in 'International Development' from the University of Turin, with a thesis titled 'Closing the Loop: Circular Economy Approaches to Enhance Reforestation Efforts. A Quantitative Analysis of a Lebanese NGO' Before her doctoral studies, she was a research assistant in the Department of Law, working on a project in Legal Economics about the digitization of EU marketplaces, resulting in the report "Towards Harmonized E-Commerce Regulations: An Evaluation of the Omnibus Directive 2019/2161 in the Euopean Union." She also contributed to various cultural projects during her internship at the Nuto Revelli Foundation.

Stefania Camoletto

PostDoctoral Research Fellow in Economics at the University of Turin, Department of Economics and Statistics "Cognetti de Martiis". Her research interests include local development studies, CSR and sustainability, creative and cultural industries. She complements more qualitative research methodologies and community studies collaborating with institutional bodies including the European Parliament’s Research Office. She is also a Research Fellow of MIRA Observatory on Design in Piedmont.

Alice Fontana

PhD student in Digital and Cultural Economics and graduate in Economics and Cultural Policies at the University of Turin. She is a member of the research groups NUDD (Usages du Numérique pour le Développement Durable) of the University of La Rochelle; LabEx ICCA (Industries Culturelles & Création Artistique) of the Université Sorbonne Paris Nord and IRMÉCCEN (Institut de Recherche Médias, Cultures, Communication et Numérique) of the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3. Her research focus on the potential digital technologies for cultural heritage enhancement. In particular, her doctoral research focuses on the impact on museums and cultural consumption of immersive technologies (augmented and virtual reality). 

Blythe Hanley

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