Francesco Gerli is currently Research Fellow at the Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering of Politecnico di Milano where in November 2018 he will begin his PhD. He completed his Master of Science in Economics and Social Sciences at Bocconi University with a thesis about the relationship between governances and performances of Social Policies. After a collaboration with the Centre for Child Well Being and Development of the University of Zurich, his research interest currently focuses on Social Innovation and Local Development, specifically investigating the role of Social Innovation face with the challenges of Regional and Territorial Inequalities.