Umberto Pernice is senior project manager and senior advisor in collaborative innovation management with more than 25 years of international working experience in research and innovation projects in different interconnected areas including: disaster resilience, natural resources management, nature-based solutions and spatial applications. He is independent researcher in the field of environmental economics and geospatial information for ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction. He holds a PhD in Energy and Environment at Sapienza University of Rome, a Master in Business Administration (MBA) and a Degree in Economics and Business at University of Palermo. He has assisted more than 30 organizations including large enterprises, SMEs, universities, research institutes, governments and NGOs in Europe, the Middle East and the US. The latest ongoing European projects that he joined as a partner on nature-based solutions include H2020 REST-COAST and Horizon Europe REWRITE. He is proposal evaluator for the Research Executive Agency of the European Commission for his expertise on business model innovation. He has coached spin-off and start-up for scaling-up innovative products and services in the environmental monitoring and climate services.