Michele Costabile is a Professor of Management and Marketing at Luiss University and Director of Luiss-X.ITE. 
He previously taught for more than 20 years: as an adjunct professor at the SDA Bocconi School of Management in Milan, and an assistant, associate, and full professor at the University of Calabria (Arcavacata – Cosenza, Italy). He has an extensive teaching and research experience in Italy and abroad, on graduate, post-graduate and executive education programs. He has been visiting scholar at Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management, and research assistant at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Business Administration.
 He is the author and co-author of many books and papers that have been published in various journals, including the Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Service Research, and Journal of Interactive Marketing. He served on the board of the European Marketing Academy as the Italian Nation Coordinator (2000-2004). He advised many companies and institutions (e.g. Italian Ministry of Culture - MIBACT), and since 2002 he has been engaged in many technology-transfers, academic spin-offs, high-tech Startups and venture capital funds projects both as advisor and as founder/co-founder or leader. He co-founded Luiss Alumni for Growth - investment club.