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Tour d'Europe Torino Meeting – 25 January 2018

ITALIAN EXPERTS

Francesco Profumo, born in 1953, as of May 2016 is Chair of Compagnia di Sanpaolo. He was Minister of Education, and Research from November 2011 to April 2013 and President of the Italian National Research Council (CNR), from August 2011 to January 2012. In 2003 he became Dean of the Faculty of Engineering at the Politecnico of , where he was appointed in 2005 up to 2011. He is full professor of Electrical Machines and Drives at Turin’s Politecnico and adjunct professor at the . He has worked in various in the world: Argentina, China, Hungary, Albania, Romania, Latvia, USA, Japan, Czech Republic. He was given the title of Honorary PhD by 10 universities in different countries. From 1978 to 1984 he worked as Senior Engineer at the R&D Centre of Ansaldo Group in Genoa. He has been member of the Board of Directors at Telecom, Pirelli, Unicredit Private Bank, Il Sole 24 Ore. He was Chairman of IREN Group until 2013-2016. He is Chairman of Inwit, President of Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Chairman of the Turin Campus of ESCP, President of SAFM, member of the Board of Directors of Fidia, member of the Board of Directors of Fondazione Agnelli, member of the Scientific Board of IIT. He was also honoured with the Lion d'Oro in Turin in 2008, with the Valdo Fusi Award in 2011 and the Guido Carli Award in 2011. He was Chairman of G8 University Summit 2009 in and Chairman of Columbus (association of 55 European and Latin American universities). He is member of Accademia delle Scienze in Turin and of Academia Europaea.

Maurizio Sobrero, PhD MIT, BS Università di Bologna, is Professor of Technology and Innovation Management at the University of Bologna where he chaired the PhD Program in Management, the Department of Management, the Council of the University Department’s Head, the University Research Committee, and was a member of the University Senate between 2009 and 2012, as well as a member of the University’s Executive Committee. He is the author of over 30 peer reviewed international articles and 5 books in the Economics and Management of Innovation, with a specific focus on inter-organizational collaborations, University-Industry relationships, corporate governance and R&D investments. He has served as an expert in these matters in several Committees of different public, private and government institutions. He has taught graduate and executive courses in Europe, Asia and South-America, working with different companies on several consulting projects and having served on the board of start-ups as well as stock-market listed companies. He served as the national expert for Research and Innovation Policies during the Italian Presidency of the EU and a member of the Italian expert group preparing the 2017 G7 meeting on Research and Innovation. He is a Founding Faculty Fellow in the area of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology in Moscow and the Vice-Chair of FoodNexus, a pan-European consortium involving over 80 large companies and Universities focused on Food Innovation.

Angela Simone is a public engagement professional, experienced in EU projects since FP6. Currently is Deputy Coordinator of “SMART-map” (H2020) aiming at bringing responsible innovation into the industrial sectors of precision , 3D printing in biomedicine and synthetic biology thanks to co-designed tools with societal actors. Since 2010 she has been collaborating with Fondazione Giannino Bassetti, designing and managing several international and local projects dealing with responsible research and innovation (RRI), as “SMART-map” and “Futuro RRI”, ongoing project funded by Region to implement a regional body for enhancing responsible and open innovation. She regularly lectures on science communication, public engagement, RRI, open science and open data in national and international workshops. She is author of several Italian publications on RRI-related issues and hundreds of journalistic articles on cutting edge science and technology and open science as well as co-author of the book “Curarsi nel futuro” (Therapies of the future) published by Zanichelli Editore on stem cells and gene therapy technologies and their entangled societal impacts. She seats on the Code of Conduct Board of the Italian Biotechnologists Association (ANBI). Biotechnologist by training (specialization in Pharmaceutics), she holds a further Master Degree in Public Communication of Science and a PhD in Law and New Technologies - Bioethics. During her Doctorate, she was a visiting fellow at Science, Technology and Society Program at JFK School (Harvard University).

Mario Calderini, a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Manchester, is full Professor at Politecnico di Milano, School of Management, where he teaches Social Innovation. He is the Director of Alta Scuola Politecnica and Executive Vice President of Fondazione Politecnico. He is the Director of Tiresia, the Politecnico di Milano School of Management’s Research Centre for Impact Finance and Innovation. He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Minister of University Research and Innovation and a Government’s Sherpa for the G7 Italian Presidency 2017. His numerous publications in highly ranked international journals cover several topics in the field of innovation and social impact finance. He has been a member of the G8 Task Force for Social Impact Investment, he chaired the Italian Advisory Board on Social Impact Finance, he is the President of the Scientific Committee of the Social Impact Agenda for Italy Association (Italy’s NAB). He sits in the Italian Government’s Advisory Group on Social Entrepreneurship and Impact Measurement and he contributed to promote the social innovation agenda in Italy, launching the sector’s first public consultation. He has been part of the Government’s Advisory Group that drafted the new law on social entrepreneurship. He is currently a member of the Government’s Task Force on Social Impact Investment. He sits in the Director’s Board of the newly established Nesta Italy Foundation.

Gianmaria Ajani was appointed Rector of the in October 2013 for a six-year mandate (2013-2019). After graduating with honours in Law at the University of Turin in 1979, he worked as a Researcher at in Milan and then as a Professor at the . At the University of Turin, Gianmaria Ajani is Professor of Law and holds the chairs of Comparative Legal Systems, International Law & Contracts. He served as Director of the Department of Law from 1998 to 2004 and Dean of the Faculty of Law from 2009 to 2013. He has been a Visiting Scholar in Moscow and Leiden, and a Visiting Professor in Berkeley, Fribourg, Zhongnan and Georgetown University in Washington, DC. Professor Ajani served as a legal expert for the Sacharov Foundation Initiative to advise the USSR Government on legal reforms, as a consultant to the IMF- International Monetary Fund and the Council of Europe on the project of recodification of civil law in Albania. He also served as a member of a team of three experts called by the OSCE- Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe to facilitate dialogue between the Ukrainian Central Government and the Crimean Authorities, as a participant in a EC/TACIS project and as an expert for a UNDP project on the training of National Assembly officials in Hanoi, Vietnam. He is author of numerous papers for national and international scientific journals.

Tiziana Andina is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Turin, Italy. (www.labont.it/andina). She is an expert in metaphysics and ontology with a specialization in social ontology. Since 2016 she is the director of the research center, LabOnt – The Laboratory of Ontology at the University of Turin (www.labont.it). Her recent publications concern social ontology, transgenerational actions, relationship between generations and problems of social justice, fostering the interdisciplinary research between philosophy, social sciences and law. Among the most recent titles: An Ontology for Social Reality, Palgrave-Macmillan, 2016, What is Art? The Question of Definition Reloaded, Brill, 2017 and (ed. by), Bridging the Analytical Continental Divide. A Companion to Contemporary Western Philosophy, Brill 2014, a reference book on contemporary philosophy. She is co-editor of the international journal Brill Research Perspectives in Art and Law. As fellow at the Columbia University (2008-2009), Käte Hamburger Kolleg, University of Bonn (2015), ITMO University, Russia (2014) and Saint Petersburg State University (2015 and 2016), she started several international collaborations with leading institutions in the field of the social ontology, cultural studies, political philosophy and philosophy of law, making LabOnt one of the leading European center in the field of social ontology and philosophy of art.

Alberto Anfossi is Director for the Local Development at Compagnia di San Paolo, former head of the fund raising and EU liason office. Consultant for the Italian national agency of the evaluation of universities and research centers (ANVUR). Degree and a PhD in theoretical physics; after of post-doc experiences and a master in Economics, he moved to a managerial path in research, first at Politecnico di Torino then cooperating with other public and private research centers including , INFN.

Eugenio Coccia is full professor of Experimental Physics and Rector of the GRAN SASSO SCIENCE INSTITUTE at the Scuola Superiore Universitaria of Aquila. He is one of the main personalities behind the discovery of gravitational waves and the first direct observations of black holes fusion and neutrons stars. Student of Edoardo Amaldi and Guido Pizzella, he worked at the CERN of Geneva, at Kameringh Onnes Laboratory at Leida, at INFN Laboratory of Frascati and at the European Gravitational Observatory in Pisa. He was President of the International Committee of Gravitational Waves and he directed for several years the INFN Gran Sasso National Laboratories. He has been member of CEPR (Committee of Experts for Italian Research Policy) and he is fellow of the European Physical Society and member of various scientific academies among which the Academia Europaea and the Turin Science Academia .

Luigi Gallo graduated in Business and Economics, with maximum score, at University Federico II of Naples, Italy; He holds and MBA with focus on Finance and Banking at CUOA of Altavilla Vicentina, Italy. Luigi joined Invitalia in September 2003 where he is now Director of the Innovation and Compeitivness Department, in Invitalia - Italian Agency for inward investment promotion and enterprise development. Under the current mandate, Luigi is the representative of the Agency and the responsible for the development and implementation of the supporting activities at Directorate General for scientific and technological research of the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research – MIUR. He has been President of the Commission for the Evaluation of Strategic Development Plans and Feasibility Studies for the development and strengthening of High Technology Districts and Private Public Laboratories, envisaged by the 2007-2013 National Operating Program “Research and Competitiveness”. He has been member of the board of directors of Echolight spa, and of Pedius srl. and Member of the Study Commission, established by the Inter-Ministerial Decree of July 13th 2007 (Ministry for the Economic Development, Ministry of Education, University and Research, Ministry for Reforms and Innovation in the PA), aimed at identifying policies and instruments for public-private partnerships in the field of research and technological innovation.

Aldo Geuna is Full Professor at the Department of Economics and Statistics Cognetti De Martiis, University of Torino, Fellow of the Collegio Carlo Alberto and Senior Research Fellow at Lupina / Innovation Policy Lab, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto. He is member of the Board of Directors of the Fondazione . He was Visiting Fellow at SIPER, , Senior Lecturer at SPRU, University of Sussex, Senior Research Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute and Research Fellow at BETA, Université Louis Pasteur (Strasbourg). He has published several books and articles in refereed journals in the area of economics of science, economics of innovation and science and technology policy. He is member of the Editorial Board of Italian Economic Journal, Journal of Technology Transfer and Research Policy. He has been a member of various scientific committees, expert groups and panels in Italy, Sweden, the UK as well as for the OECD, the National Academies (US) and the EU. He has been an invited speaker in various European countries, the US, Canada, China and Korea. He taught as invited visiting professor in Chile, France, Italy, Spain and Vietnam.

Mario Gioannini was born in Siena in 1959. He holds a Degree in Economics from the University of Turin. After a stint at the Research Department of the San Paolo Bank (today Intesa San Paolo), he joined the Sanpaolo Bank Holding, where he dealt with the affiliates of the San Paolo Group. In 1998 he moved to the Compagnia di San Paolo, the foundation that takes its origin from the transformation of the San Paolo Bank, in the framework of the reform of the Italian banking system. At the Compagnia he has worked at the Department taking care of the support of research and higher education in the field of Social Sciences. He was given the responsibility of the Department in 2009. By accepting the appointment as the Managing Director of the Collegio Carlo Alberto (May 2015) Mario has decided to accept a more operating and challenging role towards supporting and organizing research and higher education in Economics and Social and Political Sciences.

Rosa Grimaldi is Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management at the University of Bologna, Department of Management. She teaches ‘Technology Entrepreneurship’ at the School of Engineering at postgraduate and executive education levels. At the University of Bologna she is serving as Deputy Rector for Entrepreneurship since 2015. She is the Director of the Executive Master in Technology and Innovation Management (EMTIM) at BBS (Bologna Business School). Most of her scientific production is about New Business Creation, Entrepreneurship, and Technology Transfer. On these topics she has publications on national journals and international journals (including Research Policy, R&D Management, Technology and Innovation Management, Journal of Business Venturing, Small Business Economics, Scientometrics, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Journal of Technology Transfer). She is in the Editorial board of the Journal of Technology Transfer and she is advisory editor for Research Policy.

Patrizia Lombardi holds a PhD in Sustainable Urban Development Evaluation, MSc in Urban Planning & Real Estate, BA/MA in Architecture. She is Full Professor of Planning Evaluation and Project Appraisal and Head of the Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning of Politecnico and Università di Torino. She is an established figure in the field of smart and sustainable urban development for over 20 years, publishing widely in the subject area and coordinating, or serving as lead partner, in several Pan-European Projects, including: BEQUEST, INTELCITY, INTELCITIES, ISAAC, SURPRISE, PERFECTION, MILESECURE-2050, DIMMER, POCACITO, SHAPE-ENERGY, SCORE. Since 2015, she is Rector’ delegate for the Sustainable campus initiatives and since 2010, Chair of the UNESCO Master "World Heritage and Cultural Projects for Development" managed by the International Labour Organization.

Anna Meroni is Associate professor, Politecnico di Milano, Department of Design. Architect and PhD in Design, Anna is Associate Professor of Design in the Department of Design at the Politecnico di Milano. Her research focus is on service and strategic design for sustainability to foster social innovation, participation and local development. A specific expertise has been developed in participatory design and co-design methods and tools. She is the head of the international Master of Science program in Product Service System Design and coordinator of the POLIMI- DESIS Lab, the Milan based research laboratory of the DESIS-Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability Network. Anna is on the board of the PhD program in Design, principal investigator of national and international research projects, chair of conferences, author of several publications, and visiting lecturer in international universities.

Paolo Mulassano is Deputy Director of Istituto Superiore Mario Boella with specific responsibilities on Research Areas management. He is also member of the Advisory Board of INNOGEST sgr, a venture capital fund focused on seed and early stage investments. From July 2010 to January 2012 he was heading the Microsoft Innovation Center Torino, now he is in the board of directors of the MIC Torino. Paolo Mulassano received the PhD in Communication Engineering from Politecnico di Torino in December 2003 and the Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering (Summa Cum Laude) from the same university in December 1998. From 2004 to 2010 he was heading the research group (joint between ISMB and Politecnico di Torino) focused on satellite navigation R&D with specific reference to the European Galileo system. From 2004 to 2010 he was member of the Galileo Signal Task Force of the European Commission as Italian delegate nominated by Italian Space Agency. He was also involved several times as consultant for EC on strategic decisions related to technologies as well as market issues related to Galileo. On the academic side, he acted as professor under grant for several courses of the Master on Navigation and Related Applications of Politecnico di Torino and he was also professor of the Master of Science in Electrical and Communication Engineering at Politecnico di Torino and visiting professor at California State University (Los Angeles).

Marco Ottaviani is currently Dean for Research and Professor of Economics at Bocconi University, Milan. After graduating at Bocconi in 1992, he earned a PhD in Economics at the Massachussets Institure of Technology, and then taught at University College London (Lecturer 1996-2001), the London Business School (Associate Professor 2001-2004 and Full Professor 2005-2007), and the Kellogg School of Management of Northwestern University (Full Professor 2007-2011). His research is at the cross road of industrial organization, finance, law, and organizational economics, with work on financial conglomeration, information aggregation in markets and organizations, prediction markets, incentives and regulation of information intermediaries, consumer privacy, consumer protection, and approval regulation

Emilio Paolucci is full professor at Politecnico di Torino and in 2015 he was appointed as Vice Rector for Technology Transfer. He received his M.S. (summa cum laude) in Electronic Engineering in 1990 (Politecnico di Milano). His teaching and research expertise are in the fields of strategy and entrepreneurship, Technology Transfer(TT), innovation management, information technologies (IT) and organizational theory; in particular, his research interests include the following topics: 1) the role of IT in transforming existing value chains and changing the value creation and value appropriation dynamics; 2) the role and the use of IT in transforming firms’ organizational configurations and their relationships with management and strategy, also in the perspective of the so-called Industry 4.0 paradigm; 3) the changing role of TT practices and entrepreneurship education in fostering innovation in universities, 4) the internationalization of small and medium enterprises. He is founder and head of the “Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation” at Politecnico di Torino. In the fields of entrepreneurship and TT, he cooperates with international universities and research centres (CERN, Collège de Ingénieurs); he co-founded the start-up Electro Power Systems, selected in 2011 as “Technology Pioneer” by the World Economic Forum. He coordinated the “Observatory on Information Society” in for 10 years. He published his research in peer reviewed international journals in the fields of spread and use of digital innovations for the international network Business and Information Technology (BIT), as well as in the field of Strategy and Digital innovation (Information and Management, Decision Support Systems, Small Business Economics, Industrial and Corporate Change).

Francesca Pasinelli is CEO of the Fondazione Telethon from 2009. Fondazione Telethon is a non-profit organization that funds research projects aimed at finding a cure for genetic diseases. After her University degree in Pharmacology, in 1986, she moved into clinical research and subsequently held different managerial positions in multinational pharmaceutical companies (SmithKline Beecham S.p.A.; Schering Plough S.p.A). In 1997 she moved to the non-profit sector in Fondazione Telethon. In 2007 Francesca Pasinelli was awarded the Commendatore al Merito della Repubblica Italiana, honour bestowed by the President of the Italian Republic Giorgio Napolitano.

Oscar Pasquali IS Head of the Technical Secretariat of the Ministry of Education, University and Research Valeria Fedeli. He oversees reform initiatives as: Industry 4.0, National Programme for Research 2015-2020 and School-Work Schemes. Between 2012 and the beginning of 2016 he was Policy Manager of the American Chamber of Commerce in Italy: he was in charge of enterprise internationalization, and of foreign investments. He took part to the organization of the USA Pavilion at Expo Milan 2015. Previously he was consultant in the public-policy sector at national and European level. He has a degree in History and a Master in Public Management from SDA Bocconi.

Guido Pellegrini is FULL Professor in Statistical Methods for Regional Policies at Sapienza, University of Rome (Italy) and President of the Italian Section of ERSA. Previously he was Economist at the Research Department of Bank of Italy, where he managed the Regional Analysis Unit. He participated to several projects and committees on European and national policy evaluation, in Italy and abroad. Recently he collaborated in the definition of national and regional strategies for smart specialization in Italy. He has published numerous papers in international journals and books on policy evaluation, evaluation of Structural Funds, evaluation of national and regional innovation policies, economic growth and convergence among regions, local development. He received RSAI’s Martin Beckmann Prize as the best paper published in Papers in Regional Science in 2013.

Eleonora Rajneri Karageorgevic is Professor of Private Law at the University of Eastern Piedmont and Visiting Professor at the University Paris-Dauphine, a member of the Société de Législation Comparée (Paris) and an honorary member at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law (London). She is a member of the board of Nesta, Italy. Her recent research interests include the notion of a defective product in European national law courts and the Corporate Social Responsibility"

Donatella Sciuto is a full professor in Computer Engineering at the Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione of the Politecnico di Milano. She is Deputy Director of Education at CEFRIEL where she manages the executive companies education training programs. She received her degree in Electronic Engineering from the Politecnico di Milano, her PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Colorado, Boulder and a Master in Business and Administration from SDA Bocconi University. She works in the Electronic Design Automation field and in particular on methodologies for embedded systems design. She has been associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Computers, and she is Associate editor of the Journal of Design Automation of Embedded Systems, Kluwer Academic Publishers and of the IEEE Embedded Systems Letters. She is or has been member of different program committees of EDA conferences, among which: DAC, ICCAD, DATE, CODES+ISSS, CASES, DFT, FDL, PATMOS, IFIP VLSI Conference. She has been Publications Chair for IEEE/ACM ESWEEK 2007 and Co- General Chair of ESWEEK 2009. She has been the European representative in the executive committee of the ICCAD conference. She is in the executive committee of the conference IEEE/ACM Design Automation and Test in Europe, for which she has been Program Chair in 2006, Vice General Chair for 2007 and General Chair in 2008. She is in the main board of the European Design Automation Association. She has been VP of Finance of the Council of EDA CEDA (IEEE) for 2008-2009 and she is now President Elect. She has coordinated and coordinates different European and National research projects.

Pietro Terna is a retired professor of the University of Torino where he was a full professor of Economics. He is currently the president of the Collegio Carlo Alberto. His research work is in the fields of (i) artificial neural networks for economic applications, (ii) social simulation with agent-based models (where he has been pioneering the use of Swarm), and (iii) simulation of enterprises and organizations behavior, also in the financial domain, with studies on systemic risks with co-authors of the Italian Central Bank. He has prepared a new agent-based simulation tool in Python (Swarm-Like Agent Protocol in Python), SLAPP, deriving it from the Swarm project). He is teaching a course of Econophysics in the Master Degree in Physics for Complex Systems of the University of Torino.