Professor Patrizia Lombardi POLITECNICO di Torino, Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning, Head After a BA/MA in Architecture at Politecnico di Torino in 1988 and a MSc in Territorial Planning and Real Estate market in 1990,) in 1999 Professor Lombardi completed her PhD studies at the Research Institute of Business and Informatics, at University of Salford of the Great Manchester. She currently holds the Established Chair of Professor in Cost Planning of Buildings and Environmental Evaluation at the Politecnico di Torino. Since January 2012, she was appointed the Head of the Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning at the Politecnico di Torino and University of Turin (DIST), with particular responsibility in the Management of Higher Education, Research and Human capital. She is also a member of the Academic Senate and other Academic Boards, including the Strategic Plan development of the same Politecnico. She is an established figure in the field of Evaluating Sustainable Urban Development in which she has been active for over 20 years, coordinating or serving as lead partner in several Pan-European Projects on urban sustainability and Information Technologies, publishing widely in the field. The list of EU projects includes among the others MILESECURE-2050 (Coordinator), POCACITO, DIMMER, UNI-Metrics (VII FP), PERFECTION (SiTI Research Institute of the Politecnico di Torino), ISAAC, INTELCITIES (VI FP), Network BEQUEST (IV FP).