Giuseppe Arbia is Full Professor of Economic Statistics at the Faculty of Economics, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. He received his Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge (UK) and was a post-doc at the University of California at Santa Barbara (USA). He was Visiting Professor at the University of Cambridge (UK), the University of Texas at Dallas, the Universidad Federal do Ceara at Fortaleza (BR), the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champain, the New York University, the Université Panthéon Assas, Paris II, the University of Tokyo, the Higher School of Economics at Moscow and the University of Stellenboch (South Africa). In 2014 he received the Honorary Position of Research Professor by the College of William & Mary at Williamsburg (Virginia). His research interests are mainly in the fields of spatial statistics and spatial econometrics on which he has published more than 150 articles, 6 books and 7 book chapters. He is member of the editorial board of the journal "Empirical Economics". He is the Chairman of the Spatial Econometrics Association, member of the Board of Directors of the Italian Statistical Society and member of the International Statistical Institute, the American Statistical Association, the Royal Statistical Society and the Regional Science Association.