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Ileana Stigliani is Professor of Design & Innovation and Academic Director of 51³Ô¹ÏÍø Business Design Studio. Her research focuses on the cognitive aspects of innovation. In particular, she studies how material artefacts and practices influence cognitive processes – such as sensemaking and sensegiving, categorisation, and perceptions of organisational and professional identities – within organisations.

In 2016, she received the 51³Ô¹ÏÍø Business School Teaching Excellence Award for Innovation in teaching. She received her PhD in Management from Bocconi University, Milan.