Di Minin received his Master's of Science in Public Policy from the Georgia Institute of Technology in May 2002, focusing on regional development and innovation policy, and his Doctorate in City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley, in 2006. He is an assistant professor of strategy in the Institute of Management Department of Economics and Management at the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy, and a research fellow with the Berkeley Roundtable of the International Economy.