Lala Hu is Assistant Professor of Marketing at the Catholic University of Milan, Italy, where she teaches Marketing, Marketing Management, and International Marketing. Previously, Dr. Hu was Postdoctoral Researcher and Adjunct Professor at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.She has been a Visiting Scholar at several universities worldwide, including the Kellogg School of Management (Northwestern University, USA), Tongji University (Shanghai), and UIBE Beijing. She has been an Invited Lecturer at King’s College London, Department of Digital Humanities. Her research has been published in book chapters and peer-reviewed journals, including the European Business Review, the British Food Journal, the International Journal of Emerging Markets, and the Australasian Marketing Journal. She also writes for the online editions of WIRED and the leading Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera.