Matteo Basso (1986) is an urban and regional planner. He received a Ph.D in Regional Planning and Public Policy from the Università Iuav di Venezia in 2015. His main research interests are spatial analysis, multi-level governance and local development. For the doctoral thesis he focused extensively on issues of governance related to the organization of mega-events in London (2012 Olympics), Milan (2015 World Expo) and Shanghai (2010 World Expo). On this occasion, he spent 6 months as visiting scholar at Westminster University (London) in 2013, and 2 months at Tongji University (Shanghai) in 2014.