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EIIS is born with the firm idea of becoming a benchmark for innovation and sustainability education. We understand that in order to create a great team the most important thing is to have great players.  Well…we have amazing ones.

We are proud to introduce to you our scientific board, the great minds behind our continuous, tireless and exciting pursuit of excellence.

Emilia Garito Founder & CEO @ QuantumLeap
Carlo Alberto Pratesi Professor of Marketing Innovation and Sustainability @ Università di Roma Tre
Hady Milani Sub-orbital astronaut candidate, Space Advocate
Marco Tantardini Space Policy Office @ Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri
Stefano Davanzo Business Development Manager, Formatore, Imprenditore
Mattia Ortino Researcher @ CERN
Isabella Pratesi Conservation director @ WWF Italy
Vincenzo Mazzotta Professor of Financial Management & Markets Business Management @ Lumsa University
Sonia Massari Director at Gustolab International Food Systems and Sustainability,BCFN Consultant
Emanuele Cacciatore Senior Director Insight & Cloud Strategy EMEA @Oracle
Hashem Al-Ghaili Science communicator and video producer

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Emilia Garito

Emilia is the TEDxRoma curator and an IT engineer specialized in complex system modeling – System Dynamics – applied to Management and business modeling theories. She worked for the Finmeccanica Group (Selex Sistemi Integrati) as project manager in the field of RADAR, and Command and Control Combat Systems for the Italian Air Force. She then worked as sales manager for NATO countries.

She is the founder and CEO of Quantum Leap, one of the first Italian Patent Brokers and leading company in the field of Technology Transfer and has sought to make Open Innovation her cultural and professional guideline. Her business supports research centers, industries, and innovative start-up companies. Her passion for Engineering and Invention, matched with the fervor for humanities such as Philosophy and Sociology, has led her to specialize in innovation and technologies supported by ethical principles to preserve the respect for human beings. She has been consistently and enthusiastically working four years to create a large integrated TEDxRome community.

Carlo Alberto Pratesi

Carlo Alberto is full Professor of Marketing, Innovation and Sustainability at Roma Tre University, Department of Business.

His main research areas are: marketing, corporate communication, sustainability, and entrepreneurship.

Since 1986 he has been involved in communication and marketing consultancy for leading Italian companies and institutions: currently he works for Barilla (#1 pasta producer in the world), Coop (#1 retailer in Italy) and Esselunga (n.2 retailer in Italy), Armani and Medtronic.

Since 2016 academic advisor of Life Cycle Engeneering a consultant firm that helps private companies and business associations succeed sustainably, providing professional solutions and tools for Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), eco-design, environmental communication and regulatory compliance

He is faculty member of the PhD in Communication, Social Research, Marketing at Sapienza University of Rome.

He co-founded SIMktg (the Italian academic marketing association) and Dock3 – Roma Tre University’s pre-acceleration programme for startups.

He gives lectures in Italy and abroad (in the last two years: New York, Washington, San Francisco, Tokyo, Sydney, Canberra. Philadelphia).

He is editorialist at Corriere della Sera (#1 newspaper in Italy)

His recent book is Il cibo perfetto. Aziende Consumatori e Impatto Ambientale del Cibo. Perfect Food. Companies, consumers and environmental impact of food, (with M. Marino, Edizioni Ambiente 2015). The latest papers are: “Towards Zero Waste: an Exploratory Study on Restaurant managers”, (con Principato L., Secondi L.) in International Journal of Hospitality Management, Volume 74, August 2018 and “Working toward Healthy and Sustainable Diets: The “Double Pyramid Model” Developed by the   Barilla Center for Food and Nutrition to Raise Awareness about the Environmental and Nutritional Impact of Foods” with Ruini L.F., Ciati R., Marino M., Principato L., Vannuzzi E., in Frontiers in Nutrition 2015 May 4.

Hady Milani

Hady is a space engineer that took part in numerous space related projects collaborating also with German Space Agency (DLR), NASA, ESA – European Space Agency and Russian Academy of Cosmonautics. He has been selected as a suborbital scientist astronaut for a joint research program on the upper mesosphere. Hady has been honoured with several awards including being recognized as the best young researcher by the European Space Agency (ESA). Since 2015 he has been following the growth of the New Space Economy in Europe being directly involved with it. Currently he is in the Space Exploration Project group at SGAC in support of the United Nations, and Deputy Manager of the New Space Economy European ExpoForum, SpaceGen track. He works as a consultant for different companies, other than giving lectures and talks on important events and at schools.

Marco Tantardini

Marco is an engineer, a scientist, and he likes to think that sometimes he is also a pioneer. Since December 2018 he works as an Expert at the Presidency of the Council of the Ministers (Goverment of Italy) in the Space and Aerospace Policy Office. He holds a BSc in Aerospace Engineering from Politecnico di Milano, and received a MSc in Space Engineering from the Delft University of Technology, in the Netherlands, studying his MSc thesis in Applied Mathematics and Astrodynamics at Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya in Barcelona, Spain.

In 2018-2019 he attended with success online courses in cybersecurity by HarvardX, in Artificial Intelligence and Business Strategy by MIT, and about Launching Breakthrough Technologies by HarvardX. Before graduating he worked as assistant to the Executive Director at The Planetary Society in Pasadena, the world’s largest and most influential public space organisation group, and he was also visiting scientist at the Mission Design Center of the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View. In 2010 Marco built the strategy and the core of the team that led to the Asteroid Retrieval Mission (ARM) study at the Keck Institute for Space Studies (KISS) at Caltech in Pasadena, and in 2011‐2012 he promoted this project to aerospace leaders and governments. In 2011-2012 he also acted as the ESA contact point for the KISS’ ARM study, reporting to the ESA HQ in Paris. In spring 2013 the White House and the NASA HQ backed ARM (renamed Asteroid Redirect Mission) as the new strategy for America’s human space exploration, recognising Marco’s key role in it. In 2015-2018 he has been an Italian Space Agency (ASI) Associate in the Unit of the Technical Advisors to the President, working as the ASI technical contact point with the NASA HQ in the NASA-ASI feasibility study about the possible Italian participation in the NASA’s ARM Program (Asteroid Redirect Robotic Mission, ARRM, phase), and he also advised the ASI President on possible new initiatives. He has been a Member of the Organising committee and Chair of session “Mission and Campaign Design and Execution” of the International Academy of Astronautics’s (IAA) Planetary Defence Conference since 2015. In 2015 he chaired the working group (WG) for the Office of the Military Advisor to the Prime Minister of Italy (Presidency of the Council of Ministers) that had the task to define a roadmap toward the full automation of aerial, maritime and terrestrial transports. Marco is part of the community of the Aspen Junior Fellows Alumni at Aspen Institute Italia. He won the AlumniPolimi Award 2014 for Innovation from the alumni association of Politecnico di Milano, and was featured on the May 2014 issue of Popular Science (US edition). In 2015 he founded DronSystems, a British-American startup developing DroNav: a highly automated Air Traffic Management (ATM) system for small UAVs operating at low altitudes to enable safe automated commercial operations beyond the operator’s visual line of sight. He holds an Italian patent, international patent pending.

Stefano Davanzo

Stefano is the CEO and co-founder of Tacoma Partners. For the past ten years, he has been working exclusively on enhancing the commercial potential of people and enterprises.

His professional path began with an experience in MasterCard (Brussels and Rome) where he achieved the position of Technology Account Manager. Afterwards, he went on to founding and taking care of the business development of a start-up (Turin) in the biotech field. Two years later, the start-up was sold to a multinational company. From then on, he began his consultancy career, focusing exclusively on business development: tens of projects in the most different fields (from plastic surgery to toys, through insurance and food delivery) conducted using a universal approach based on the state-of-the-art studies of the main business schools (primarily HBS). Besides his passion for business development, Stefano is supported in his work by the international background he developed through his academic and professional experiences in Norway, Belgium, and Spain.

Mattia Ortino

Mattia is a nuclear engineer specialized in material science. He is currently based at the Atominstitut in Vienna, finishing his PhD in Superconductors: he is sure about the potential of this breakthrough class of “quantum” materials, trying to demonstrate everyday how they will turn upside down the most of nowadays technologies.

He moved his first steps into the research world directly at CERN, the European Centre for Nuclear Research (Geneva, CH), where he worked on new materials for the vacuum technology. Now is part of “EASITrain”, a CERN-coordinated European Marie Sklodowska Curie Action (MSCA) focused on industrial applications of superconductors and cryogenics. In the last years he won a price at the Superconductivity Hackathon (@ CERN), held scientific talks in several countries, being eventually visiting scientist at the Ohio State University (USA). Now he collaborates as well as a contributor for the magazine ImpactScool, trying to disclose (and share) part of his daily headache on a wider audience!

Isabella Pratesi

Isabella was born in Rome and she graduated in Natural Sciences. She joined WWF Italia in 2003. She is currently the Conservation Director and she leads strategies and international projects on species and habitats conservation.

Isabella has always combined her passion for nature with a strong commitment to halt biodiversity loss worldwide. In doing so she devotes a huge effort in fostering environmental education and awareness. Isabella writes books and papers on nature conservation, she participates in many television and radio broadcasts, she writes blogs and more generally she uses every opportunity to denounce the degradation of our Planet and raise support for nature conservation. Her hope is to leave the future generations a planet in which humans live in harmony with nature. She is a passionate diver.

Vincenzo Mazzotta

Vincenzo (PHD – MBA) is an Adjunct Professor of Financial Management and Markets, Business Management at Lumsa University. He also teaches in many American Universities in the fields of Project Management, European Financial Grants, Financial Management and Organizational Behavior. He graduated in Economics at Luiss University. He got a Master in Business Administration (MBA) and a PhD in Management. He has been a Research Fellow at La Sapienza University. 

His research activities deal with the following topics: Organizational Behavior, Entrepreneurship and Corporate Finance. He is a Chartered Accountant specialized in Project Management for European Grant received by Universities and Firms.

Sonia Massari

 Sonia is the Academic Director of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Food Studies programs in Rome and Director of Gustolab International Food Systems and Sustainability (she works in partnership with 15 US Universities and she is managing Food Studies Programs in Italy, Vietnam, and Japan).
 
She teaches at Scuola Politecnica di Design Milan ( Master in Food Design), at ISIA Design School Rome ( Master in Systemic Design) and ” Sustainability Design Thinking” at ROMA Tre University.
She is currently coordinating the ADI INDEX Food Design commission. She is a senior scientific consultant for the Barilla Center for Food and Nutrition Foundation.
In 2012, she won the International “Le Tecnovisionaries” Women Innovation Award, a prize which publicly recognizes women who have demonstrated an ability to combine creativity and innovation in order to improve quality of life, in particular in the area of food and nutrition, and in 2014, she won the NAFSA TLS Knowledge Community’s Innovative Research in International Education Award.
 
She is a Board member of the Association for the study of Food and Society (ASFS), she is a member of the Canadian Association Food and Society (CAFS) and the WE – Women for Empowerment network. She is a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Food Design, Frontiers Journal (on Sustainability) and Elisava Temes de Disseny.
 
She is a mentor for several startups organizations ( StartubbootcampFoodtech Rome, Dock3, StartupWeekRome, …) and she is continuing to work as a consultant, researcher, trainer and designer for food companies and research institutes ( JRC Science HUBS, University of Siena, SDSN, SDGAcademy, University of Macerata, …). She monthly writes on “Design” in the  GAMBEROROSSO magazine.
 
 

Emanuele Cacciatore

Emanuele is an experienced executive, management consultant and strategic advisor with a strong track record in leading strategy and organization projects (60+) for listed corporations, state-owned companies and small-medium enterprises, across several industries and geographies. He has worked for global management consulting organizations such as Bain & Company, Arthur D. Little, and Accenture Strategy across +15 countries and diverse industries including Oil & Gas, Engineering & Construction, Industrial Goods & Services, Public Sector & Government, Transportation. He specializes in Corporate Strategy Design & Development; Organization Design; IT/Technology Transformation Program; Supply chain; Sustainability; Industrial Development. He currently works at a global tech corporation where he supports Digitization and Cloud Transformation journeys across major accounts by leveraging knowledge of IT specific challenges and latest technology trends (particularly Cloud, Big Data, AI/ML) to develop bold IT-powered business value propositions. Emanuele holds a M.Sc. with Hons in International Politics and Economics and a Master in General Management. He is focusing on the impacts of artificial intelligence and automation on workforce and organizations and has recently attended an executive program on Artificial Intelligence at IESE Business School – University of Navarra. Emanuele speaks four languages and is also an ACC ICF (International Coach Federation) certified Executive Coach.

Hashem Al-Ghaili

My name is Hashem Al-Ghaili.

I was born in Yemen in 1990. I obtained my master’s degree in Molecular Biotechnology from Jacobs University Bremen in Germany and currently work as a full time science communicator (not for a company or anything, I just do it myself). I run my own Facebook page “Hashem Al-Ghaili” which has over 32 million followers and reaches around 400 million users per week. My videos on Facebook have garnered nearly 12 billion views. They cover a wide range of subjects: astronomy, physics, biology, medicine, nature, technology and innovation. My science communication activity extends to YouTube, Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn.

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