Monica Scannapieco is currently head of the “Information and Application Architecture” Division at the Italian National Institute of Statistics, where she is working since 2006 promoting and leading innovation projects on data management. She earned a University Degree in Computer Engineering with honors and a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering at SAPIENZA – Università di Roma. She is author of papers on data quality, privacy preservation and data integration published in the leading conferences and journals in databases, information systems and statistics areas. She has been involved in several European projects on data quality, data integration, open data and Big Data.