Carlo Batini is full professor at University of Milan Bicocca. He obtained the graduation in Engineering at University of Roma in 1972, and the post graduation in Computer Science in 1973. Since 1983 to 1986 he has been associate professor, and since 1986 to 2001 he has been full professor at University of Roma La Sapienza. Since 2001 he is full professor at University of Milan Bicocca.

Since 1993 to August 2003 he has been on leave from university, being a member of the executive board of the Italian Authority for Information Technology in Public Administration, where he leaded significant projects in Italian Central Public Administration related to e-Government initiatives.

His main research areas have been in the past conceptual database design, schema integration, automatic layout of diagrams, visual query languages, repositories of conceptual schemas. More recently his interests have covered methodologies for eGovernment and for the service life cycle, service portfolio management, information value and value of integration in databases and in service repositories.

In 2013 he received in Hong Kong the Elsevier Peter P. Chen Award for his research, teaching and publishing activity in conceptual modeling.