Mariarosaria Lombardi is a Full Professor with a Ph.D. in Commodity Sciences at the Department of Economics, University of Foggia (Italy). She has been a Rector’s delegate for Coordination of Planning and Accreditation Activities since May 2023 and a departmental delegate for the relationship with territorial stakeholders since 2017. She has authored 90 papers published in refereed journals and academic volumes. Her expertise lies in the innovations and socio-economic and environmental sustainability assessment of supply chains, using Carbon Footprint and Material Flow Analysis methodologies. She focuses mostly on agro-energy and agro-food systems in relation to climate change. She emphasises social innovation as an alternative approach to improving the sustainability of the agri-food sector. She has participated in different national and international research group projects, as a coordinator of some Erasmus Intensive Program projects on bioenergy and as a leader of a WP for a European FP7 project at the University of Foggia. She is a reviewer for several international scientific journals and as a guest editor for some open access journals, including Sustainability, where she is also a member of the Food editorial board. In 2019 she received the Future Food Institute and FAO certification as a “Climate Shaper.” Since 2015, she has been a member of Vazapp, a social innovation initiative that promotes relations among farmers to develop a sustainable agro-food system.