Giuseppe Arbia is a Professor of Economic Statistics at the Faculty of Economics, Catholic University of Rome (Italy). His research focuses on spatial statistics and spatial econometrics and on these topics he has published four books and more than 200 articles in leading journals. He has been chairman of the Spatial Econometrics Association since 2006 and Director of the Spatial Econometrics Advanced Institute since 2008. He is also a member of several international scientific societies. From 2020 he is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Spatial Econometrics, published by Springer-Verlag.