Engineer since 1972, professor of applied computer technology in planning and urban design professor at Sapienza University of Rome and at Italian and foreign universities. UN expert in 2009 was invited to join to the small group of world experts to implement the UN World Conference on Geographic Information Management. Expert of the European Commission for e-government and the spatial information , he has been involved since the beginning in the INSPIRE directive of European Union. Head of Laboratory of Geographic and Environmental Information Systems, University of Rome and president of Italian Association AMFM GIS Italy and of European Association EUROGI. Former President of AGILE European association of research laboratories for spatial information, he taught in American universities, Spanish and Egyptian. He is member of Global Advisory Committee of OGC. Head of research for public and private organizations, designer and project manager of major public contracts in the field of information systems and digital mapping. Author of more than eighty publications, most presented at international conferences. Member of national and European committees, already director of public corporations.