Giancarlo Giudici is Full Professor of corporate finance at Politecnico di Milano. He belongs to the faculty of MIP Graduate School of Business where he teaches Finance. He wrote several publications on domestic and international journals on the topics of entrepreneurship, corporate financing, listings and IPOs, venture capital and crowdfunding. He is the director of the Italian Observatories on Minibond and Crowdinvesting at Politecnico di Milano, School of Management. He led several projects funded by public and private entities on the topics of competitiveness and firm financing. He is adjunct professor at the Ton Duc Thang University in Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam).