Alfredo De Massis

Alfredo De Massis is a Professor of Entrepreneurship & Family Business at the University of Chieti-Pescara and IMD who serves as advisor to family enterprises, family offices and policy makers. Ranked as the #1 most impactful family business professor worldwide in the researcher ranking created by Texas State University, as the leading (#1) family business academic globally in a 2024 study published in Small Business Economics, and as the most influential and productive author in the family business research field in the last decade in a recent bibliometric study, he is a Family Capital Top 100 Family Business Influencer and has been inducted by Family Business United into The Family Business Hall of Fame. Alfredo serves on the boards of public and private organizations internationally, including in Italy, China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, the US, Germany, and the UK. Among various editorial roles, he is an editor of Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, associate editor of Family Business Review, and his research has been cited over 27,000 times and published in the leading academic and practitioner journals. Since 2020 he is the Co-Founder of the first Observatory on Italian Family Offices where he also serves as Chairman of the International Scientific Advisory Board. His work has been featured in various media outlets including Financial Times, Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, CNBC, The Sun, Daily Mirror, The Independent, Il Sole24Ore, Porta a Porta (RAI 1). His research has also been published by the European Commission as scientific and technical report, presented at the UK Government and UK Parliament, cited in official documents of the European Union, and listed in the World Health Organization (WHO) Covid-19 Research Database, thus impacting in a tangible way policy making.