Alessandro Vercelli teaches Economics of Sustainable Development in the Department of Economics and Statistics, University of Siena, Italy, is a Professorial Research Associate at SOAS, University of London, UK, and is a life member of the Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, UK. He has served as Vice President of the International Economic Association and member of the Executive Committee of the Italian Economic Association. He has also been a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Queen Mary, University of London, UK, a British Council Senior Visiting Fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford University, UK, and a visiting scholar at many distinguished academic institutions.