Michele Bonino, Professor of Architecture and Urban Design, Ph.D. in History of Architecture, is the Head of the Department of Architecture and Design at the Politecnico di Torino. Formerly, he was the Vice- Rector for Relations with China (2016-2021) and with Asian Countries (2021-2023). He was a Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University (2013-2014) and a Visiting Scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2016). He's an Onorary Professor at the HIT-Harbin Institute of Technology.
On behalf of the Politecnico di Torino, he was the principal architect for the Shougang Visitor Centre for the XXIV Olympic Winter Games (Beijing 2022, with Tsinghua University). He was the Academic Curator of the 2019 Bi - City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture - Shenzhen (with Sun Y.). He was invited to the Venice Biennale of Architecture in 2004, 2010, 2021, 2025. His current research focuses on the innovation of design and its practices according to models of transnational exchange. He's the author of more than 350 scientific publications.