Prof. Mauro Negri was born on November 25, 1955 in Milan, Italy. He received the Degree in Electronics Engineering from the Politecnico di Milano (Italy) in 1979 with 100/100. He has been a Research Assistant at the University of Brescia from 1986 to 1991. Since 1992 he is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the Electrical and Information Department (D.E.I.) of the Politecnico di Milano. His currently research interests include conceptual modelling of spatial data, spatial database design,GIS, geospatial interoperability architectures for the Public Administrations. He is author of several articles on international journals and conference proceedings. He has been a member of WG1 of the IntesaGIS project and he has actively participated to the design of the conceptual model and of the conceptual schema of the "National core" database of the Italian Spatial Data Infrastructure, published by CNIPA (Italian National Authority for Informatics in the Public Administration)in 2006. He is a member of some projects on spatial interoperability and topographic databases of regional and national government.