Michele Vellano is a professor in International and European law for the Department of Economic and Political Sciences at the University of Valle d’Aosta (Italy). He is director of the Inter-University Centre dedicated to International Economic Organisations law (Centro interuniversitario sul diritto delle organizzazioni internazionali economiche). He is a member of the AER Academic Centre for regionalisation.

His last publication, “La Cooperazione Regionale nell’Unione Europea” (Regional Cooperation in the European Union – see picture below), deals with various topics such as existing agreements fostering regional cooperation, social and economic cohesion (with a special focus on the new programming period of the European Union, 2014-2020), EGTC as a model for territorial cooperation, cross-border cooperation with a focus on the Italian case – amongst others.