Ernesto Tavoletti is Associate Professor of Economics and Management of Enterprises, International Marketing and Public Management at the University of Macerata. He received a degree in Economics and Commerce cum laude at the University of Bologna in 1997 and PhD in Economics and Management of Enterprises and Local Systems at the University of Firenze in 2004. He has been a board member of the PhD in Management at the University of Rome Tor Vergata from 2011 to 2013. He is a member of the European Academy of Management and the Academy of International Business. He has served in the Council of Directors of the Master in Relations with Eastern Countries from 2004 to 2011, as Co-director from 2009 and as Director in 2011. From 2011 he has been coordinating the Master’s Degree in International Economic and Trade Relations. From 2014 he serves in the Council of Directors of the Master in Innovation in Public Management. His research interests focus on international business, innovation management and higher education management.