Barbara BONCIANI

Vice President of RETE Italia. Adjunct Lecturer of Sociology of Development, University of Pisa. Researcher at the Ports System Authority of North Tyrrhenian Sea. Livorno, Italy.

Barbara Bonciani (Phd) is Adjunct Lecturer of Sociology of Development at the University of Pisa and Research Associate at the National research council -IRCRES (Research Institute o Sustainable economic growht). She also works as researcher at the Port Network Authority of the North Tyrrenian Sea, Research Office. Her teaching and research interests are focused in port-city relations, maritime traffics, shipping market analysis and forecasting ports, green ports, shipping sustainability, social responsibility and social issues related to port policies. She is Vice-President for Italy of RETE (International Association for the Collaboration Between Port and City) and member of the Scientific Committee of RETE; she is also member of the Scientific and Technical Committee on the Frontiers of Logistic 5.0 at the Dubai Future Foundation. From 2019 to june 2024 held the role of City Councilor for port, port-city integration, university research innovation, cooperation and peace and international relations at the Municipality of Livorno. In this framework she was the creator of the Project “Women in the port and maritime sector, why not?” developed by the Municipality of Livorno in collaboration with RETE, the University of Pisa and Italia National Council of Research to improve women’s participation in the port and maritime sector. She has been Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne (UK) and Robert Schuman trainee at the European Parliament, DG Research. She collaborated as an expert with the European Commission (DEAR Project) and with the European Parliament - ACP Joint Assembly, Committee of economic development, finance and trade and the ASEP 10th (Asia-Europe Summit).