Our People
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Board of Directors
Nino FOTI
PresidentAmong the founders of Magna Grecia Foundation in 1984, he became President in 1997. Former Member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Parliament, from 2001 to 2005 he served as the vice-president of the Italian Institute for Industrial Promotion and from 2006 to 2010 he was the vice-president of GME (Gestore Mercati Energetici).
Giorgio ROMANO
Vice President
Surgeon at the School of Specialization in General Surgery Policlinico “Paolo Giaccone” in Palermo.
Giovanni NOBILE
Board member
Graduated in Marketing and Communication Psychology, master's degree in public relations, consulting and political communication. Former administrative manager of the Magna Grecia Foundation and Director from 2018 to 2025.
Supervisory Board
Antonello COLOSIMO
President of the Supervisory Board
Chamber president at the Italian Supreme Audit Institution, President of the Court of Auditors of the Umbria region. Magistrate in charge of ENEA (National Agency for new technologies) supervision. Tax court judge.
Scientific Committee
Antonio BALDASSARRE
Constitutionalist. President Emeritus of the Italian Constitutional Court, former professor of Constitutional Law at LUISS Guido Carli University and of Institutiones iuris civilis publici at Pontificia Lateranense University. He was president of RAI - the national Italian broadcasting company.Luca BIANCHI
Expert in economics and development policies. Head of the Association for the Development of Industry in southern Italy – SVIMEZ, vice president of the Institute of Services for the agricultural food market – ISMEA and member of Regione Sud UNICREDIT Spa territorial advisory board.Carole BONANNI
Associate Professor of the Strategy Innovation Department at ECS Rennes School of Business in France, where she teaches Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship.Pietro Massimo BUSETTA
Quantitative meridionalism expert. Professor of Economic Statistics, board member of Svimez (Association for the Development of Industry in southern Italy), President of “La Loggia” Center, President of ISSEST (Institute for Expert Territorial Studies).Silvia CASTAGNA
Social science and communication analyst, spin doctor. Analyst and writer at Aspen Institute Italia. Founder & VP of “Sillabe di Seta” Association. Founder & CEO of her own public affairs company, responsible for institutional relations at BVA Doxa. She worked for the Euro committee and the Presidency of the Italian Republic.Gian Maria FARA
Sociologist. Founder and president, since 1982, of Eurispes (The Research Institute of Italians). Member of the Scientific Committee for the European Institute at the Academy of Russian Sciences, member of the Scientific Committee of Italia-USA Foundation. He is also Vice President of Coldiretti’s Observatory on crime in agriculture and the food system.Arthur Joseph GAJARSA
NUnited States Circuit Judge (RET). Appointed judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit by Bill Clinton, before his nomination he served at the U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Department of Interior and U.S. Department of Defence.Adriano GIANNOLA
President of SVIMEZ Adriano Giannola (Fano, 1943) holds a degree in Economics with a specialization from the Rossi Doria Centre in Portici. He is President Emeritus of the Banco di Napoli Institute Foundation and of the Board of Directors of the Teatro Stabile di Napoli, President of the Naples Historic Centre Community Foundation, and has served as Professor of Banking Economics at the University of Naples Federico II since 1980. He has been a member of the SVIMEZ Board of Directors since 2006 and has served as its President since 2010.Gianfranco LIZZA
Gianfranco Lizza, former Professor of Geopolitics at Sapienza University of Rome. He is the author of numerous essays, including *Geopolitica* and, more recently, *Il Tarlo*.Elena LORENZINI
Audit court judge at the Italian Supreme Audit Institution. From 2016 to 2018 she was Deputy Chief of Cabinet of the Ministry of Environment. Deputy Chief of Cabinet of the Ministry of Enterprises and Made in Italy.Francesco MACIOCE
Professor of private law at the Department of Economy of Roma Tre University. Author of several academic publications.Francesco MANTOVANI
Principal Expert in the “People and Results” area of The European House-Ambrosetti. Vice Director of the Center for Research in Leadership Innovation and Organisation. Former Senior Vice President of HR Development & Education for Finmeccanica Group.Wittfrida MITTERER
Professor at the Faculty of Architecture of Innsbruck University since 2008, where she heads the post-graduate specialization course in Bio-architecture – energy certification at LUMSA University in Rome. She is editor-in- chief of the first Italian newspaper on the subject of Bioarchitecture “Rivista di Bioarchitettura” and she is also the co-founder of the Bio-Architecture Association and the National Institute of Bio-Architecture. She is the president of the Italian Foundation for Bio-Architecture and Sustainable Anthropization of the Environment.Antonio NICASO
Journalist, author and researcher of mafia criminal phenomena, he is regarded as one of the world’s most renowned experts on the Calabrian mafia (known as ‘Ndrangheta). Professor at Queen’s University in Kingston, he also teaches at Jerome University in Waterloo, Canada.Roberto PASCA DI MAGLIANO
Economist – Professor of Economics and Management, he has been the director of the School of Financial Cooperation and Development (SFIDE) at Unitelma Sapienza, University of Rome since 2019; financial advisor at the Ministry of Enterprises and Made in Italy; member of the Steering Committee of the Foundation “In Unam Sapientiam” at Roma Sapienza; former general director for the incentives to enterprises and companies (Ministry of Productive Activities, 2002-2005); professor of Growth Economics at Sapienza University of Rome.Angelo M. PETRONI
Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science at Sapienza University of Rome, where he also teaches Science of Administration and Organisation. He has also held the chair of Epistemology of Human Sciences at Bologna University for several years. He has taught at Sorbona and Bocconi universities and has also been visiting professor at several foreign universities. Since 2007, he has been Secretary General of Aspen Institute Italia.Maria Silvia RATI
Professor of Italian Linguistics at “Dante Alighieri” University for Foreigners of Reggio Calabria. She has conducted field surveys on sociolinguistics and youth language. She teaches courses on specialized languages in the health sector and institutional text writing techniques. She oversees “Polo della Calabria” within the scope of the project entitled “I Lincei per una nuova didattica della scuola” at Lincei-MUR Academy.Marcello RAVVEDUTO
Researcher of Contemporary History and professor of Digital Public History at University of Salerno. He is member of the board of directors of the Italian Association of Public History. He is also member of the scientific committee for the post-graduate specialization course in Expert in Historic Communication of Roma Tre University and member of the scientific committee of the “Digital library on the Camorra and the culture of legality” of Federico II University of Naples. He is the scientific director of the Interdepartmental Workshop of History and audiovisual Media at University of Salerno and also of the Virtual gallery on the Mafia and anti-Mafia in the Joe Petrosino House/Museum.Ivano SPALLANZANI
Italian entrepreneur and former President of the National Confederations of Craft Trades and Small and Medium Enterprises (Confartigianato). He was elected president of the Banca di Sassari (BPER Group) in 2003, a position he held until 2018. In the world of finance, he was member of the board of directors and member of the executive board of Banca Popolare of the Emilia-Romagna region and vice-president of Banco of Sardegna.Nicola SQUITIERI
President of the "Guido Dorso" International Association. Italian Journalist, expert in cultural communication. He graduated in Law at Federico II University of Naples, summa cum laude, and was qualified for the forensic profession.Adriano TORTORA
Italian lawyer, he has practised law in superior courts since 2015. Expert in administrative law, he is a contract professor and lecturer at the Economic-Financial Police School of the Italian law enforcement agency Guardia di Finanza. He boasts more than 30 publications as well as 4 monographies on administrative and environmental law.Simona TOTAFORTI
Professor of Urban Sociology at “Dante Alighieri” University for foreigners of Reggio Calabria. She is founder and director of the Research Center ReLab – Studies for Urban ReEvolution. Her research interests include urban studies, biophilic design and health, landscape design and natural systems, migration and neighbourhood change, empirically validated planning.Honorary members
Pier Giovanni GUZZO
World-renowned academic, corresponding member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, he was Superintending archaeologist at the Ministry of Cultural Heritage.Pandeli MAJKO
Albanian politician. He served twice as Prime Minister of Albania, once from 1998 to 1999 and again in 2002. From 1997 to 2001 he was member of the parliamentary committee charged with the task of drafting the new Constitution of Albania. He is member of the General Counsel of the Transnational Radical Party. Until September 1st 2021, he served as Minister of State for Diaspora.Andrea MONORCHIO
Vice president of the Central Bank of Venice, he was the 17th Accountant General of the Italian State from 1989 to 2002. He was awarded the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (Knight Grand Cross) and the Gold Medal to the Merit of the Public Health.Angelo PERSICHILLI
Former director of communications for Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, journalist for the daily “Il tempo negli anni ‘60”; before he moved to Canada he wrote for “Il Corriere Canadese” at Omni TV, and he was a columnist at the Toronto Sun, The Hill Times and the Toronto Star.Panagiotis ROUMELIOTIS
Greek economist, academic and politician. Former minister of National Economy of the Greek government, he has taught economics at various universities in France and Greece. He was Chairman of Attika Bank and since 2011 he has been Vice-Chairmain of Piraeous Bank, Greece’s largest.Renato SCHIFANI
Italian politician. Currently serving as President of the Sicilian region, he joined Forza Italia party in 1995 and served as a senator of the Italian Republic from 1996 to 2022. Former President of the Senate of the Italian Republic from 2008 to 2013, he was head of Forza Italia Party at the Senate from 2001 to 2008 and was also president of the New Center-Right party from 2013 to 2014.
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Mario FRATTI
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Joseph LA PALOMBARA
American political scientist, he is the Arnold Wolfers Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Management at Yale University, where he has been teaching for over fifty years. He has twice chaired the Political Science Department at Yale and he also served as director of Yale’s Institution for Social and Policy Studies.Maria Rita PARSI
Educational psychologist, psychotherapist, teacher, essayist, writer, television commentator and columnist.Our Team
Alessandro DI LEGGE
Secretary General
Expert in public relations and non-profit management communication. He is a member of the Executive Board of Eurispes, where he serves as communication and public relations consultant. Since 2019, he has been vice-president of Confassociazioni, Imprese e Professioni.
Maria Chiara RUGGIERO
Head of Organizational Secretariat and Institutional RelationsHead of Research
Fiammetta PILOZZI
Head of Research
Researcher of Sociology of cultural and communication processes at UNIDA of Reggio Calabria; she is the president of Allèas Research Center. Among her fields of study, intercultural communication, ecoliteracy and health literacy are the most relevant.