Nicola Dimitri is a Full Professor of Economics at the University of Siena since 2003. Starting from 1995 he became a Life Member of Clare Hall College, Cambridge UK. Moreover, he is a member of the Center for Blockchain Technologies, University College London, the Blockchain Center of the University of Zurich and Science Fellow at Exponential Science (London).
He was the Italian Delegate to the 7th Framework Program (Cooperation-SSH), Deputy Rector and Head of the Economics Department of the University of Siena. Mr Dimitri has been Chair in Innovation Procurement at the Maastricht School of Management (NL) economic consultant of CONSIP, the Italian Central Procurement he has been a consultant of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Dutch Ministry of Defence and the Dutch Ministry of Justice for Procurement Design. His interests and professional experience are in procurement, auctions, market design, game and decision theory, contract theory, economics of innovation, health and pharmaceutical economics, blockchain and cryptocurrencies. Mr Dimitri published several articles in international peer reviewed journals and contributed, as author and editor, to several books. In particular, jointly with Gustavo Piga and Giancarlo Spagnolo, he edited the Handbook of Public Procurement, Cambridge University Press (2006) while, jointly with Wim Naudè and Thomas Gries, he co-authored a volume on Artificial Intelligence and Economics, Cambridge University Press, 2024.