Doctor in Law at the University of Oviedo (Spain), with honours and awarded by Sancho Rebullida Prize, and Bachelor of Law from the University of Pisa (Italy) and the University of Oviedo (Spain). Professor in Spain, Chile, and now Italy, is an Associate Professor at Università di Pavia. He has been teaching all the main areas of private Law in Spain, at the University of Oviedo (2004-2011) and at the University of Girona (2011-2015), where he taught in Spanish, Catalan, and English. He has also been an associate professor of private and comparative Law at the University Alberto Hurtado (2015-2020) in Santiago de Chile, where he has also been head of the private law department (2019-2020), and since the end of 2020 he is associate professor of private comparative Law at University of Pavia, Italy—admitted to Italian and Spanish Bar and Indipendent Arbitrator. He has been a visiting professor and has held several conferences in Europe, Asia, and Latin America. He is in charge of the Obligations and Contracts Section of the Institute of Ibero-American Law (IDIBE); Member of Advisory Board of the Association des Alumni et des Amis de l’Institut Suisse de Droit Comparé (Lausanne, Switzerland). He was also a member of the Study Group that elaborated the Principles of Latin American Contract Law. Assignment of the Italian authorized translation of «UNCITRAL, HCCH and UNITROIT Legal Guide to Uniform Instruments in the Area of International Commercial Contracts, with a Focus on Sales. Since May 2024, he has been a member of the Tribunal Supremo of the Chilean Cámara Nacional de Comercio (CNC). He is currently a member of the working group and drafting committee on the project to modernise the Luxembourg civil code regarding the reform of the Law of contracts. He published six books and more than 150 scientific contributions, and was a member of several associations, including the European Law Institute (ELI) since 2011, and the International Academy of Comparative Law. Contact: alfredo.ferrante@unipv.it