Andrea Calabrò is the IPAG Entrepreneurship & Family Business Center Co-Director & STEP Project Global Academic Director. He holds a Ph.D. in Management and Governance from the University of Rome Tor Vergata and is doing since 2006 actively research, teaching and practice initiatives to develop family firms worldwide. He co-founded the Family Business Research Strategic Interest Group (FBR SIG) at the European Academy of Management (EURAM) and is co-founder and organizer of the International Family Business Research Forum (IFBRF). He is currently Global Academic Director of the STEP (Successful Transgenerational Entrepreneurial Practices) Project. Since 2014 he serves as Associate Editor of Journal of Family Business Strategy. He has published journal articles on family firms, internationalization, and corporate governance in leading international peer-reviewed journals such as: Strategic Management Journal, Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, Corporate Governance: An International Review, Harvard Business Review (Case Study Collection), Journal of Business Research, Journal of Business Ethics, International Journal of Management Reviews, Family Business Review, International Business Review, Journal of Small Business Management, Journal of Family Business Strategy. He has also worked with family business owners and managers from different countries offering active counseling and coaching on succession planning and management, conflict management, growing in international markets and designing and implementing family governance structures and mechanisms.