Tour D'europe Torino Meeting – 25 January 2018
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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, University 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 Turin, where he was appointed Rector in 2005 up to 2011. He is full professor of Electrical Machines and Drives at Turin’s Politecnico and adjunct professor at the University of Bologna. He has worked in various universities 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 Italy 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 medicine, 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 Lombardy 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 University of Turin 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 Bocconi University in Milan and then as a Professor at the University of Trento. 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 Collegio Carlo Alberto, 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.