BA Statistics, Msc Statistics, Ph. D. Economics, is Full Professor of Economics at the University of Siena (Italy). He is Life Member of Clare Hall College Cambridge (UK)  and Honorary Professor and Research Associate at the Maastricht School of Management (NL). He has been the Italian Delegate for the 7th EU Framework Programm (Cooperation-SSH) and Deputy Rector and Chair of the Economics Department at the University of Siena.
He has been economic Advisor of CONSIP, the Italian Procurement Agency, from 2003-2008, economic advisor of the Japanese Embassy in Rome and has advised the Dutch Ministry of Justice on procurements design.
His interests and professional experience are in procurement, auctions and market design, game and decision theory, contracts, the economics of innovation, health care and pharmaceutcial economics. He published several papers in international journals and contributed, as editor and author, to various books. In particular, togetrher with Gustavo Piga and Giancarlo Spagnolo he edited the Handbook of Procurement, Cambridge University Press.