Paola Martani holds the academic title of ‘Dottore in Philosophy’ from Università degli Studi di Milano, as well as an MPhil in Linguistics. Since 2014, she has been the course coordinator and lecturer at the Italian Embassy Cultural Centre at New Delhi. She is a lecturer in many universities and has also been teaching at Jamia Millia Islamia since 2018. She has five books to her credit:A Student Handbook of Italian – Learning Italian through Design A1, A Student Handbook of Italian – Learning Italian through Design A2, Travelling between Fables— which has also been translated into Italian, Art and Culture of Italy—From the Roman Empire to Present Day and Pocket Book for Students in Italy. In April 2018, she was awarded by the Women Economic Forum for her work and in June 2019, she received the award Young Personality of the Year (below 40 years) by the International Academic and Research Excellence Award. She also writes a bi-monthly column, ‘Culture and Influence’, in AsiaOne.