Jacopo Galli obtained his PhD from Università Iuav di venezia with a dissertation on the African works of Edwin Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew. He was among the curators of the architectural section in the exhibition Africa Big Change – Big Chance in La triennale Milan and CIVA Bruxelles. He was the author of a book devoted to the Ethiopian works of Arturo Mezzedimi and has been part of international exhibition (Biennale di Venezia, Triennale di Milano) and workshops (Virginia University Venice Program, Rebulding Syria from Within, WAVE 2017 Syria the Making of the Future). He is currently part of Urbicide Task force, a multidisciplinary think tank on architectural and urban reconstruction strategies, that is a consultant for the World Bank program Building for Peace in MENA.