Prof. Valentina De Marchi is Associate Professor at the Department of Society, Politics and Sustainability at ESADE Business School. Her research deals with processes of innovations aiming at reducing environmental impacts, especially in contexts of global value chains, when production is fragmented along geographically dispersed actors. As such, her research deals with the complexity to develop environmental innovations, investigating how firms can address this complexity. Her more recent research aims at understanding the role of paradoxical approach to support achieving sustainability results, and the interplay of environmental upgrading and downgrading at different tiers of value chains.  

She is upcoming deputy editor of Journal of International Business Policy, and member of the editorial board of Organization & Environment and Journal of International Business Studies. During 2020-22 he has been president of the GRONEN association, and member of the organizing committee of Network O (Global Value Chains) within the SASE conference and part of EIBA board.