Alba Cappellieri is Full Professor at the Politecnico di Milano, where she teaches Jewellery Design and Fashion Accessories. She is the Director of the International Master in Fashion Accessories Design, of the Master on Brand and Product Management at the Milano Fashion Institute (consortium of Bocconi, Politecnico and Cattolica universities). From 2014 she is the Director of the Jewellery Museum in Vicenza, the only Italian museum exclusively dedicated to jewellery. She is a member of the Scientific Committee of the Ecole Van Cleef & Arpels in Paris, of the Gijs Bakker Foundation in Amsterdam and of the Fondazione Cologni in Milan. From 2013 to 2016 she taught Design Driven Innovation at the Stanford University. In 2017 she was appointed Ambassador for the Italian Design Day at Osaka, in 2018 at Sydney and in 2019 at Baku, in 2020 at Miami. She curated several International exhibitions and her last publications include “Van Cleef&Arpels: Time, Nature, Love” (Skira 2019).