Giuseppe Arbia is Full Professor of Economic Statistics at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore of Rome, Italy, and Lecturer of Statistics at the Università della Svizzera Italiana in Lugano, Switzerland. He was formerly Visiting Professor at New York University, USA, and at many other international universities. He has published eight books and more than 100 articles on the topic of spatial statistics and econometrics and is currently the Chairman of the Spatial Econometrics Association and the Director of the Spatial Econometrics Advanced Institute.