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Beatrice Basile
Architect, graduated from the Polytechnic of Milan where she is currently a PhD student in the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies, with a PhD Scholarship funded by PNRR and FNM to explore the potential of the railway area and its surrounding spaces as a research topic. For several years now, she has been collaborating with the Department on research and project activities and as a tutor in project-based teaching.

Corrado Benigni
Born in 1975 in Bergamo. An essayist and photography critic, he has curated exhibitions and monograph books on some of the most important contemporary Italian photographers. In 2024, he published for La nave di Teseo the volume Viaggiatori ai margini del paesaggio. Ghirri, Barbieri, Basilico, Chiaramonte, Cresci, Guidi, Jodice, dedicated to the collective experience of Viaggio in Italia.

Enrico Bertolino
His artistic career began between 1996 and 1997, during which he won several prestigious competitions for young comedians including Il Cabaret del Cabaret, Bravo Grazie! and the Ugo Tognazzi Cabaret Festival. In 1997, he made his screen debut with the film Incontri proibiti with Valeria Marini, under the direction of Alberto Sordi.

Alessandro Beulcke
An entrepreneur and expert in communication and innovation, he began his career in the 1990s at Von Klier Associati (Olivetti Group), and then became Development Manager and Partner in the PDC agency. Today, he is the founder and CEO of the content company ONLIFE Media, and presides over the Festival dell'Energia, which he founded in 2008. In 2018, he founded Beulcke+Partners, an agency that integrates corporate and digital strategy, and has initiated other major festivals and productions such as Il Verde e il Blu Festival and WE-Women's Equality Festival. He is the author of several publications and TV programmes.

Niccolò Bianchi
Graduated in Law in Como and enrolled in the Milan Bar Association, he has been working in the field of Privacy and Compliance since 2013. He additionally refines his skills in IP Rights and ICT contracts. In 2019, he obtained UNI 11697:2017 certification as a Personal Data Protection Officer and currently plays this role for several entities that are part of the FNM Group.

Giorgio Bigatti
He graduated in 1980 with a degree in Philosophy, and in 1989, he obtained a PhD in Economic and Social History from the Luigi Bocconi Commercial University in Milan. Since 2000, he has held courses on Economic History at Bocconi University, and starting from 2016, he also began teaching Contemporary Italy courses there. Since 2012, director of the ISEC Foundation (Institute for the History of the Contemporary Age).

Gianni Bono
A historian and scholar of comics, he is the author of Guida al fumetto italiano (www.guidafumettoitaliano.com), Topolino 80 anni insieme, Fumetto!, I Bonelli and other volumes on the ninth art. He founded Edizioni if and created the MUF (Museum of Comics and Imagery of Lucca).

Luca Bressan
Born in Varese in 1963, he has served as a priest in the diocese of Milan since 1987. Among the positions he currently holds in June 2012, he was nominated by Card. Angelo Scola, Episcopal Vicar for Culture, Charity, Mission and Social Action of the Diocese of Milan, is also President of the Sant'Ambrogio Foundation.

Michele Colombo
He is professor of Italian linguistics at the University of Stockholm, Sweden. He trained in Milan, Pisa, London, Leuven and Saarbrücken, and taught for several years at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart. He has published books and articles on the history of the Italian language and the dialects of Italy from the Middle Ages to the present day, working mainly on ancient Milanese, the history of grammar, and the language of the 19th century.

Simone Crolla
Managing Director of the American Chamber of Commerce in Italy since 2009. Since January 2020, he has been the majority shareholder and Deputy Chairman of Synergo SGR S.p.A., and since April 2019, he has been a member of the Board of Directors of Tesmec S.p.A. He was a Member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic from February 2012 to March 2013.

Denis Curti
Photography curator and critic. He is the artistic director of Le Stanze della Fotografia in Venice and of Deloitte PhotoGrant. He is the author of numerous essays on photography: Capire la fotografia contemporanea, l'arte del futuro e Il mosaico del mondo, la biografia di Maurizio Galimberti for Marsilio Editori. Collezionare Fotografia for Contrasto Editore. He has curated exhibitions in Italy and abroad of many Italian and foreign photographers. Among them, Ferdinando Scianna, Gianni Berengo Gardin, Franco Fontana, Helmut Newton, Robert Capa, Sabine Weiss, David Lachapelle. He is curator of the Bibbiena Italian Photography Festival and the Capri Photography Festival.

Gabriella Greison
Physicist, writer, playwright, stage actress, science communicator, journalist, and TV presenter. She graduated in nuclear physics from the University of Milan with a thesis on the experimental study of the propagation of fast electrons in a vacuum chamber. She then worked for two years at the École polytechnique Palaiseau research centre in Paris. She is director of the first Physics Festival in Italy.

Germano Lanzoni
He graduated from Marina Spreafico's Arsenale Theatre School. Since 2010, he has collaborated with Il Terzo Segreto di Satira and since 2013 he has been impersonating Il Signor Imbruttito in the Milanese Imbruttito collective. He participated as an actor in films such as Mollo tutto e apro un chiringuito and Ricomincio da Taaac. He has worked with major radio stations, teaches as an adjunct professor at Bicocca University and is founder of HBE - Humour Business Experience.

Massimo Locatelli
Massimo Locatelli teaches Film Studies and History at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart. He is a specialist in the history of film culture. Cinema e scienze. La cultura del film e il sogno della conoscenza illimitata is being published by Morcelliana.

Giada Lonati
As the social and health director of VIDAS, she combines this role with providing palliative care support for adults nearing the end of life. She is a member of the Italian Palliative Care Society, which gathers professionals involved in palliative care in Italy, including doctors, nurses, social workers, and psychologists. Author of L'ultima cosa bella (2017), Biotestamento (with Barbara Rizzi, 2020) and Prendersi cura. Per il bene nostro e degli altri (2022).

Alessandro Magnino
Chief Strategy & Transformation Officer and member of the Executive Committee of Fastweb + Vodafone from January 2025. Joining Vodafone in 2012, Magnino has held positions of increasing responsibility in both Vodafone Italy and Vodafone Group in Marketing & Sales and as Head of VGE Southern Europe. Since 2021 he has held the position of Head of Vodafone Global Enterprise Italy & Public Sector at Vodafone Italy. Since May 2024, he has been the Business Director Italy and member of the Executive Committee of Vodafone Italia.

Pietro C. Marani
Formerly Professor of Modern Art History and Museology at the Polytechnic of Milan, where he is now an Honorary Professor, he was Vice-Director of the Brera Art Gallery and co-director of the restoration of Leonardo's Last Supper. President of the Ente Raccolta Vinciana, Castello Sforzesco, Milan. He has numerous publications to his credit. He was a member of the National Committee for the celebrations of the Fifth Centenary of Leonardo's Death (1519-2019) and organised exhibitions in Amboise, Milan, Bologna, Parma, and Vinci that year, collaborating on the Leonardo da Vinci Exhibition held at the Musée du Louvre in Paris. The Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei awarded him the Tartufari Prize for Art Criticism and Poetry in 2023.

Giampaolo Nuvolati
He teaches Urban Sociology at the University of Milano-Bicocca where he was Director of the Department of Sociology and Social Research from 2015 to 2021. In 1994, he founded and has since then been the editor of the magazine Città in Controluce.

Andrea Pasini
He was, among other things, a photocomposer, graphic designer, and radio presenter. Since the 1990s, he has been writing comics for L'Intrepido, Martin Mystère and Focus Junior, among others. He is co-author of more than one hundred episodes of Diabolik, with which he has collaborated since 2000, and of which he has, in the meantime, become editor-in-chief.

Mariapaola Pesce
Born in Genoa, a bookseller by family inheritance, then a educator and executive coach, today she is involved in writing and education. In Italy, she has published around twenty titles, including narrative and picture books, and comic biographies. With the Ararat label, she does editing, ghost-writing and literary coaching. Since 2022, he has been part of the Majestic literary agency.

Alfio Quarteroni
Mathematician, professor of Numerical Analysis at the Polytechnic of Milan. He is the founder of MOX at the Polytechnic of Milan and the first director of MATHICSE at EPFL. Lecturer at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis and Director of the Chair of Modelling and Scientific Computing at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne. In 2022, he was ranked no. 48 in the Top Scientist-Mathematics, no. 1 in Italy.

Nadia Righi
An art historian, she graduated from the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan, where she also specialised in Art history. After a training period at the Louvre, she started
working at the Diocesan Museum in 1999, even before its opening to the public in 2001. She assumed the role of Director in 2017.

Chiara Rossi
Psychologist and PhD, she is a Research Associate and Adjunct Professor at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan where she carries out teaching and research activities in the fields of personality, music therapy, and new technologies (such as Virtual Reality and Artificial Intelligence) applied to dynamic psychology.

Walter Ruffinoni
CEO of NTT DATA Italia, has led the Italian branch of the Japanese group since 2013. He gained twenty years of experience in the world of IT solutions, consultancy, and security in Italy and abroad, serving as Vice President Consulting Western Continental Europe at Oracle Corporation and Group Vice President EMEA Consulting at Siebel Systems, Inc. Author of the books Il Codice del Futuro. L’Italia e la sda giapponese dell’innovazione, Marsilio editori (2017). Italia 5.0. Un nuovo umanesimo per rilanciare il Paese, Mondadori (2020) and L'Azienda Gentile. Come Bellezza, Gioia e Benessere plasmeranno le aziende del futuro, Mondadori (2023).

Donatella Sciuto
Rector of the Polytechnic of Milan, where she is a Full Professor of Information Processing Systems. Graduated in Electronic Engineering from the same university, she obtained a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Colorado, Boulder (USA) and a Master in Business Administration from Bocconi University.

Teresa Signorini
Graduated from the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy at the University of Milan. Since 2014 he has been working at the Veneranda Fabbrica del Duomo of Milan, where he collaborated in the realisation of events for Expo Milano 2015 and supported marketing and fundraising activities. He is currently in charge of editing content related to the initiatives of the Culture and Preservation Area.

Chicco Testa
Born in Bergamo on 5 January 1952, he graduated in Philosophy at the University of Milan. Currently president of Fise Assoambiente, EVA Energie Valsabbia, Carbon Credits Consulting, vice president of Proger S.p.A. and CEO of Telit S.p.A. Elected Member of Parliament in the Chamber of Deputies (Environment and Territory Commission) from 1987 to 1994 and National Secretary and then President of Legambiente in the 1980s.

Michele Ugolini
Architect, PhD, Associate Professor at Polytechnic of Milan carries out national and international research activities (Mozambique, Iran, Emirates), in collaboration with public entities and universities. This work is presented in conferences, exhibitions, and publications, focusing on the themes of the project concerning the relationship between small and large scale. He has explored themes of enhancing the built environment and open spaces in contexts of particular environmental and landscape value. He has received several awards in his professional activity as an architect.

Maria Pilar Vettori
Architect and PhD, she is an Associate Professor at Polytechnic of Milan where she carries out teaching and research activities in the field of technological design of architecture, with particular reference to the themes of workspaces within urban and social regeneration processes.

Stefano Zamagni
Economist, Full Professor of Political Economy at the University of Bologna and Adjunct Professor of International Political Economy at Johns Hopkins University, Bologna Center. Zamagni has collaborated with numerous governments in drafting laws and with the last three Popes in drafting documents with economic content.