Matteo is an aerospace engineer with more than ten years of experience in launch vehicles. Matteo was in charge of Guidance, Navigation and Control and Flight Safety for the Launch Vehicle VEGA. After five years and four successful launches of the launch vehicle, he moved to New Zealand and joined Rocket Lab USA: he was in charge of Flight Safety and Guidance, Navigation and Control for the brand new Electron Launch Vehicle. Matteo is as well a launch operator: he spent days at the launch site, running preliminary tests and analyses before the green light for the launch. After four and half years and five launches, Matteo moved back to Italy, to pick the position of Head of Sales Engineering in D-Orbit: here is now in charge of boarding customers and designing missions for the Orbital Transfer Vehicle ION Satellite Carrier.

Ivan Burkov has an educational background with BA in Political Science and World Politics, as well as an MA in Art Management. His background includes a focus on text mining techniques and consumer behavior research. Ivan has gained experience in conducting both qualitative and quantitative research through working with institutions such as Cartier, the Hermitage Museum, Faberge Museum, and others. Currently, he is involved in the research project “Evaluation and validation of innovative business models and services for a sustainable, safe and inclusive mobility” at the University of Milano — Bicocca.

Carloalberto Corica is a PhD student of the Business for Society programme at Milano-Bicocca. He holds a master degree in Government and Public policies and attended a second level master in Administration and Government of Territory at Luiss Guido Carli University. He spent six months at Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona. He has led an executive course in Law and Economics in the European Union at the School of Government of Rome. His current research interests are in strategic management in the public sector, with a special focus on creation and execution phases of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan.

I grew up in The Gambia. After completing a BSc at the University of The Gambia in Economics (Summa Cum Laude), I worked as a graduate teaching assistant in Economics. In 2019 I moved to study Economics at the University of Verona in Italy (MA, 2021) with a dissertation on investor sentiment and natural disasters. I also graduated with a second-level master's at the University of Napoli Federico II in Economics and Finance (MSc, 2022) with an overview study of the recent development of Algorithmic and High-Frequency Trading. My main research areas are Energy Economics, Climate Change, Finance, Macroeconomics, and technological Innovation. Research Project: “Medium-long term macroeconomic modeling to analyze the energy and economic system interactions.”

Angela Rizzo is a PhD student of the Business for Society programme at Milano-Bicocca. She holds a bachelor's degree in Economics from the Ca' Foscari University of Venice, and a master's degree in Tourism Economics from the University of Milan-Bicocca. In February 2022, she gained a 10-month fellowship at Bicocca University that allowed her to collaborate on the "Research for Digital and Sustainable Innovation" project. Her research interests include: sustainable innovation, open social innovation, collaborative governance and value co-creation, urban regeneration and local development.

Valentina Toscano is a PhD student of the Business for Society programme at Milano-Bicocca. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Administration, Control and Finance and a Master's degree in Economics and Law, both from University of Pavia, a three-year Bachelor's degree and a two-year Master's degree in Social Sciences from IUSS Pavia - School of Advanced Studies and a first-level Master in Global Marketing, Communication & Made in Italy. Her current research interests include: accounting, accountability, sustainability and resilience.