"Massimo Florio is Professor of Public Economics and the Jean Monnet Chair 'ad personam' of EU Industrial Policy at the University of Milan, where he has also been the head of the Department of Economics, Business, and Statistics. He has been a visiting scholar at the London School of Economics and in other British Universities, where he started his research on privatisation, leading to his book ""The Great Divestiture "" (MIT Press, 2004). For more than 20 years, Professor Florio has advised the European Commission, mainly on social cost-benefit analysis of infrastructure projects under the EU regional policy. He has also advised the OECD, the European Investment Bank, the European Parliament, and the World Bank. He is working with CIRIEC to establish a research network on the future of public enterprise."