Alessia Zorloni, cultural economist and consultant specializing in the art markets and the museum field, is Adjunct Professor at IULM University and at Catholic University, Milan, Italy. She worked as an Associate Researcher at The Boston Consulting Group in the Milan office, where she led a two-year research project funded by the European Community (Marie Curie Fellowship) on economic management ... Read moreof museum and cultural institutions. Prior to joining BCG, Zorloni worked at the Wien Kunsthalle, where she completed a three-year research project on museum management funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). Zorloni has been a visiting scholar at the Tate Modern, Guggenheim Foundation and at the Smithsonian Institution, where she has been awarded the Smithsonian's Fellowship in Museum Practice. Zorloni received a Ph.D in Economics of Communication from IULM University and a Master's Degree in Arts Management from City University, London. She has presented papers at national and international conferences and published with Springer Economics of Contemporary Art. Markets, Strategies and Stardom . Show Less