About usThe Team

Matteo Antorini – Executive Director

Matteo Antorini graduated in Biology at the University of Milan and obtained a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich.
After a multiyear experience as a researcher in both the academic and industrial fields, Matteo has dealt with multiple managerial issues while working with leading national and multinational companies as strategic advisor to the top management, also dealing with technological districts.

Francesco Braga – Scientific Director

Francesco Braga, Doctor of Agriculture (Piacenza, Italy 1981), obtained a Ph.D. in Agriculture Economics from the Guelph University (Canada). He has collaborated and is still collaborating as a consultant with many North American and European companies. In 1988 he undertook the academic career in Canada (Guelph), where he is working on agribusiness management and risk management with derivative instruments. Francesco has been a member of the IAMA Board of Directors for more than 10 years, he has just concluded a four-year mandate as executive editor of the International Food and Agribusiness Management Review (the leading scientific journal in the agribusiness sector), he has been the supervisor of more than 100 MBA and MSC thesis, and he is the author of more than 75 works, among them papers published on international scientific journals and papers presented in international conferences.