Alfredo De Massis is a Professor of Entrepreneurship & Family Business at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano and IMD Business School who serves as adviser to entrepreneurial families and policy makers. Ranked as the leading family business academic globally in a 2024 study published in Small Business Economics, Alfredo has been included in Family Capital’s list of Top 100 Family Business Influencers in February 2022, for the strong influence of his thought leadership on the global shaping of the family business field, and in September 2022 Family Business United inducted him into The Family Business Hall of Fame recognizing exceptional individuals within the family business sector. He has founded and/or relaunched three international centers for family business research, was named by Family Capital among the world’s 25 star professors for family business in 2015, and has been recently ranked as the most influential and productive author in the family business research field in the last decade in a recent bibliometric study published in the European Journal of Family Business, as top most-productive scholar in the area of family business innovation in a recent bibliometric study published on the Review of Managerial Science, and as the most productive scholar and one of the most influential ones in a recent Scientometric Analysis Of Research On Socioemotional Wealth, and 2021 highly cited researcher by Clarivate. In March 2018, the International Family Enterprise Research Academy (IFERA) in a review of “Rising Stars in Family Business Research” included six of his articles among the most influential recent ones on family firms worldwide. Among various editorial roles, Alfredo is Editor of the influential journal Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice in the Financial Times rank of top 50 journals, is Associate Editor of Family Business Review, and serves on the boards of public and private organizations internationally, including in Italy, China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, the US, Germany, and the UK.