Alessandra Colombelli is Associate Professor at Politecnico di Torino, where she teaches Strategy and Organisation and Business Management, and a member of the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Centre (EIC). She is a Research Associate at the CNRS-GREDEG-University of Nice Sophia Antipolis and the BRICK, Collegio Carlo Alberto. She serves as Technical Assessors at the I3P (POLITO incubator). She was formerly Marie Curie Fellow at the Manchester Business School, research fellow at the University Lumière Lyon2, University of Turin and University of Cagliari. She is Associate Editor of Regional Studies and member of the Editorial Review Board of Small Business Economics and elected member of the board of the Italian Association of Management Engineering (AiIG). She has been involved in several national and international research projects funded by the European Commission and other national authorities like Ministry of Education, Universities and Research (MIUR), Bank of Italy, Italy, and CNRS, France. Her publications cover several topics in the fields of entrepreneurship, economics of innovation, regional economics and environmental economics.

In the 2^nd level Specializing Master's programme in Climate Change: adaptation and mitigation solutions she will lecture Eco-innovation and Social Entrepreneurship in the course Corporate Approaches to Climate Change.