Mara Del Baldo is Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management and of Financial Accounting at the University of Urbino (Italy), Department of Economics, Society and Politics. She was also a visiting professor at the University of Vigo (Spain), the Jurai Dobrila University of Pula (Hroazia) and the New Bulgarian University of Sofia (Bulgaria). Her main research interests include: Entrepreneurship and small businesses; corporate social responsibility, sustainability and business ethics; SMEs and networking strategies; financial and integrated reporting; ethical, social and environmental accounting (SEAR) and gender(pink) accounting. She published in different Italian and foreign journals as well as in national and international conferences proceedings and books.

She is a member of Italian society of business economics and accounting (SIDREA)  Italian Society of Sciences of Tourism (SISTUR), Association for the study of SMEs (ASPI) and of International scientific communities, including the European Council for Small Business, the Centre for Social and Environmental Accounting Research (CSEAR Italy), and the European Business Ethics Network (EBEN) Italian Chapter. She works as reviewer and editorial board member of several international journals