Daniele Ietri is full professor of Geography at the Free University of Bolzano-Bozen.

After earning his doctorate at the University of Turin, he served (2005- 2018) as post-doc fellow, researcher, lecturer and professor at: Università degli Studi di Torino, Politecnico di Torino, Università della Valle d’Aosta, Université de Lausanne, Università Telematica e-Campus.

His research is mainly focused on the study of regional competitiveness and the elaboration of local development policies, with a focus on inner/internal and peripheral areas. He also conducted several research projects on the issues of urban competitiveness, authoring or co-authoring papers and books with Italian and international publishers such as Routledge, Edward Elgar, Rubbettino, Mimesis.

Daniele also works on the use of documentary films as a tool for the on-the-field research and mean of dissemination. In 2013 he founded Associazione La Fournaise (http://www.lafournaise.it), a group of researchers and filmmakers that has been producing documentary films screened in festivals, theatres and events in Italy and abroad. The feature length movies produced by the group were screened in more than 90 film festivals, awarded more by more than 20 times and screened in hundreds of theatres, associations, schools, formal and informal contexts in Italy and abroad. In the projects Daniele was in charge for the areas of development, production and sound recording.

He is member of the Council of the Global Urban Competitiveness Project, a network of academics and professionals specialised in the research on urban competitiveness at the international level.

He ideated and coordinates, with Eleonora Mastropietro, “Studi sul Qui” (http://www.studisulqui.it), a research project on the study and representation of the contemporary in “inner” and “peripheral” areas and - at the Free University of Bolzano-Bozen - he is responsible of the deep_map_lab, a laboratory intended to produce deep maps of territories and supporting the elaboration of policies (http://deepmap.projects.unibz.it).

He is Research Director of the “Regions” program at 89Initiative (http://89initiative.com/research/), a think-do-tank intended to support the European project fostering the debate on cutting-edge topics, with an emphasis on the contribution by new generations of Europeans.

In 2021 he was appointed external expert at the Valle d’Aosta Region for the elaboration and assessment of programs funded by the European structural and investment funds (https://new.regione.vda.it/europa/europa) and became member of the Scientific committee of CesUE, Centro studi, formazione, comunicazione e progettazione sull’Unione Europea e la global governance (http://www.cesue.eu).