Fernando LERA-LOPEZ, PhD, is Associate Professor at the Department of Economics at the Public University of Navarra and senior researcher at the Institute for Advanced Research in Business and Economics. His research focuses on two main strands. Firstly, he has made research about the correlates of sports participation and the economic, social and health impact of sport and physical activity. He has extensively published in sports in the main important sport management and economics journals such as Sport Management Review, European Sport Management Quarterly, Journal of Sports Economics, Journal of Sport Management, International Journal of Sport Finance, European Journal of Sport Science and Journal of Sports Sciences, among others. Secondly, he has made research about digital economy, in particular, the adoption of information and communication technologies (ICT) at micro and macro level, among individuals and among firms. He has also analysed the role of Internet and educational inequalities on economic growth. He has published in leading journals such as Telecommunications Policy, Review of World Economics, Information Development, Empirical Economics, International Journal of Human Resource Management, Information, Technology and People, Industrial Management and Data Systems and Technovation, among others. Finally, he has analysed the economical effect of environmental externalities in research publish in leading journals.