Gabriella M. Racca is Full Professor of Administrative Law at the Department of Management of the University of Torino (Italy). She coordinates the IUS Publicum Network Review (class A ranking) and she is member of the Board of Directors of the Italian Institute of Administrative Sciences (I.I.A.S.) and of the Board of the Public Administration Theory Network. She also participates in many international research networks, as the Public Contracts in Legal Globalisation Network and the European Procurement Law Group. 

She has been Head of Research Units of several EU projects PPI2Innovate, CirPro, Finch and Healthy Ageing and Public Procurement of Innovation and Member of the Advisory Board of the EURIPHI project. At the moment, she is Advisory Partner of the Interreg EU Project “Supporting the integration of New European Bauhaus values and principles into the regional planning processes” (NEBA). She collaborates internationally on many research topics as Administrative Law, Public liability, Integrity, Public Procurement and innovation, digital transition and aggregation models.
She has been co-director with Prof. Christopher R. Yukins (George Washington University) of two research projects that both led to a book, one on “Integrity and Efficiency in Sustainable Public Contracts. Balancing Corruption Concerns in Public Procurement Internationally”, published in Droit Administratif / Administrative Law Collection (Dir. by J. B. Auby), Bruylant, Bruxelles, 2014, and the second  on “Joint Public Procurement and Innovation: lessons across borders”, published in Droit Administratif / Administrative Law Collection (Dir. by J.B. Auby), Bruxelles, Bruylant, 2019]. She is actually coordinating with C.Yukins a new research project that will lead to a third book, focused on the digitalization of public procurement.

She is the Director of the Italian Master on Efficiency, Integrity and Innovation in Italian Public contracts (Master SEIIC), and she teaches in international Masters as the one in Public Procurement Management for sustainable development organized by the ITC-ILO and University of Torino.