Renata Paola Dameri has been a professor of Business Economics at the University of Genoa since 1999 and is currently Vice-Rector for International Affairs. Graduated in Management in 1990 with a thesis on artificial intelligence and decision support systems in business, her research interests have since focused on information systems, smart cities, intellectual capital and technological investments. She has been a visiting professor at the Université Paris Dauphine in Paris and at Georgetown University in Washington D.C. She collaborates with supranational institutions such as the European Union and the OECD, with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, and with local institutions such as the Municipality of Genoa and the Metropolitan City of Genoa. She is the director of the Master in Entrepreneurship, of the advanced course in Smart city and of the Innovation Hub in tourism and cultural heritage.