Davide Pettenella is a full professor at the University of Padova (Italy) where is teaching Forest economics. He graduated in Forest Sciences at the University of Padova in 1979. He worked as a head of the Forest Economics Unit at the ‘Centro di Sperimentazione Agricola e Forestale’ of SAF (ENCC Group), Rome from 1980–1990. He was a visiting professor at the Institute of Agricultural Economics (Oxford University) with a CNR scholarship in 1981. He is also the Honorary President of the Cluster nazionale Italia Foresta Legnoa and Chairman of the Technical Scientific Committee of the Regional Innovative Network ‘Foresta Oro Veneto’. He is one of the founders of ETIFOR Benefit Company, a spin-off of the University of Padova. He was one of the founders of the Forest Stewardship Council Italia and its President for two terms. He received two Honoris Causa Degrees from the National Forestry University of Ukraine–Lviv and Stefan cel Mare University of Suceava (ROM). He has published more than 400 papers as a result of his research activities and field works carried out within programs financed by the European Commission, FAO, European Forestry Institute, World Bank, and Italian national and regional institutions.