PHD: Economics and Management, Politecnico di Milano. Mechanical Engineering - Industrial Plants, Politecnico di Milano. Mechanical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano.

G Locatelli, I Zagaria, G Dei, 2025, “Social Washing in Architecture, Engineering, and Construction firms”, Journal of Management in Engineering, Vol 41, Issue 1, 04024060.

G Locatelli, I Lavagnon, D Nathalie, R Müller, M Huemann, J Söderlund, J Geraldi, S Clegg, 2023, "A Manifesto for project management research" European Management Review, Volume 20, Issue 1, pp. 3-17

I Krystallis, J Kalra, G Locatelli, 2025 "Orchestrating governance reconfiguration of inter-organizational project networks to address coordination failures", International Journal of Production Economics, Volume 285 (https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/international-journal-of-production-economics/vol/285/suppl/C), July 2025, 109637

G Locatelli, E Konstantinou, J Geraldi, T Sainati, 2022, “The Dark Side of Projects: Dimensionality, Research Methods and Agenda”, Project Management Journal, Volume 53 Issue 4, pp. 367–381

G Locatelli, M Greco, D Invernizzi, M Grimaldi, S Malizia, 2021, “What about the people? Micro-foundations of open innovation in megaprojects”, International Journal of Project Management, Volume 39, Issue 2, pp. 115-127. Paper shortlisted for the APM’s Education & Research awards 2022

• Listed in the world top 2% scientists by Stanford - Elsevier 2020, ‘21, ‘22, ‘23, ‘24
• 𝑹𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍𝒅𝑩. 𝑺𝒉𝒖𝒎𝒂𝒏𝑨𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒅 2025 for the Management History Division - Academy of Management best student paper: Giacomo Dei, Joana Geraldi & Giorgio Locatelli “The battle of narratives: How outsiders create pasts to shape Fehmarn Belt Link’s prospects”
• Winner of the “Project Management Research Paper of the year” Award for the APM Conference 2024 Education and Research for the paper “Digging in the megaproject’s graveyard: Why do megaprojects die, and how to check their health?” published in the International Journal of Project Management.
• IPMA Global Research Award 2023 For The Project “The successful planning and delivery of megaprojects: a short and long term perspective”
• Best Research Presentation Award at our 2022 International Symposium for their abstract - Project Leadership: Determinants for Terminating Infrastructure Megaprojects with Rodrigo Juarez and Tristano Sainati.
• 2021 Infrastructure Asset Management Prize - Awarded annually since 2015, this prize is presented to the best paper published in Infrastructure and Asset Management. I co-authored the winning paper “Digital system information model: future-proofing asset information in LNG plants”
• Lead author ICE James Watt award 2018 for the paper "Appraisal of small modular nuclear reactors with ‘real options’ valuation"

• Politecnico di Milano, 01/10/2021 - to date
• University of Leeds, 01/09/2015 - 30/09/2021
• University of Lincoln, 04/04/2012 - 31/08/2015
• Co Editor-In Chief - Project Management Journal (PMI) – (since January 2023)
• International Editorial Board of “International Journal of Project Management” (since Volume 34, Issue 6, August 2016)
• Editorial Advisory Board of “Progress in Nuclear Energy” (since Volume 91, August 2016)
• Editorial Board of “Construction Management and Economics” (since February 2018)
• Editorial Board of “International Journal of Supply Chain and Operations Resilience” (since 2015)
• Subject Editors “Nuclear policy, Economics and Educational issues” for Nuclear Energy and Technology (since May 2020)