Alessandra Ricciardelli, holds a PhD in Economics and Management of Natural Resources from LUM University “G. Degennaro” and earned a Master of Science with honors in Development Studies (focused on Russian and Eastern European countries) from the University of Oxford.
She is currently a researcher in Business Organization at the Department of Public Health at the University of Naples “Federico II.” She served as a Visiting Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Connection Science, under the supervision of Alex Pentland. From 2019 to 2020, she was a Management researcher at the National School of Administration, under the Presidency of the Council of Ministers.
She is also a consultant for Ernst and Young in the advisory and policy advice sector.
Her research interests include, but are not limited to, organizational design, innovation, organizational behavior, change management, organizational welfare, public management, smart cities and communities, and sustainable development of communities and territories, in which she has published articles and books.
Marco Valeri is Associate Professor in Organizational Behavior, Faculty of Economics at Niccolò Cusano University, Rome (Italy). He is a Lecturer in Applied Organizational Behaviour, Xenophon College, London (UK). He is Adjunct Professor at Faculty of Social Sciences and Leisure Management, School of Hospitality, Tourism and Events, Taylor’s University, Subang Jaya 47500 (Malaysia). He is Associate Researcher in Strategy, Magellan Research Center, School of Management, Iaelyon Business School, Jean Monet University, Lyon (France). He is Honorary Associate Professor, University of Pannonia (Hungary). His teaching and consultancy fields include strategic management, leadership development, cross-cultural management, international hospitality management. His research areas include strategy implementation, knowledge management, family business, crisis management, information technology, network analysis. He chaired/co-chaired and served on numerous PhD dissertation and master thesis committees. He has a long and extensive international academic experience and has taken visiting positions in several universities. He is a member of several Editorial Boards of international journals, a reviewer and editor of several handbooks on entrepreneurship, organization science, tourism, and hospitality management (Springer and Emerald).