ADVISORY BOARD OF THE CULTURAL ASSOCIATION

Ernesto Ciorra

Innovation and Sustainability expert

Born in 1971, he graduated in Business Administration from Bocconi University in Milan, magna cum laude, and after many years of consulting, he was Director of the Innovability ® function of the Enel Group from 2014 to July 2023. Founder of Ars et Inventio (2003), a consulting firm focused exclusively on innovation and creativity, he has helped many companies design and launch innovative products and services that have become popular worldwide. Nokia, Telecom Italia, Vodafone, Poste Italiane, Eni, GDF, Edison, the joint ventures P&G Fater and Fameccanica, Unilever, RCS, Sole24Ore, BNP, Unicredit and American Express are just some of the companies he has worked with. A lecturer in innovation management at Italian and Spanish universities and business schools (director of the ‘Programa Avanzado de Gestión de la Innovación’ at the Instituto de Empresa de Madrid, professor and member of the scientific committee of the ‘Master in Strategic Innovation’ at Cà Foscari University), he is also the author of four collections of poetry and a play that has been performed in several Italian theatres (in Milan, Bologna, Taormina and Syracuse). Top business schools have written cases on his activities as Director of the Enel Group’s Innovability ® function and the Group’s transition to a sustainable business model: Prof. Kramer – Harvard – “The Future of Energy”; Prof. Chesbrough – Berkeley – “Enel: from Monopoly to Open Power”; Prof. Monteiro – INSEAD – “Enel’s Innovation”; Prof. Birkinshaw – LBS – “Enel S.p.A.: A Traditional Utility Embraces the Digital Revolution”.

Remo Lucchi

Sociologist

Remo Lucchi is one of Italy’s leading experts in the sociology of consumption. In autumn 2015, together with senior colleagues, he founded Eumetra, an innovative start-up in the field of social research. He is the chairman of the advisory board of this institute. The sudden evolution of our society and the strong discontinuity with the past require a different approach to study – compared to classical social research methods – in order to understand where we are going and not to be caught unprepared, whether in the economic, political or social world. Previously: after graduating in Economics, in 1972 he co-founded Eurisko, now GFK, the largest consumer and communications research institute in Italy and one of the most important research networks in the world. For many years he directed some of GFK Eurisko’s most important research projects, including SINOTTICA, a well-known scenario research project. For many years – from 1978 to 2020 – he was a university lecturer. For 25 years – until 2012 – he was Managing Director, first of Eurisko, then of GfK Eurisko. From 2012 until autumn 2015, he was its Honorary Chairman.

Raffaella Cantagalli

Food technologist and social innovator

After graduating in Food Science and Technology from the University of Bologna, she specialised in Marketing Management at the Istituto Superiore del Marketing in Rome.

From 2000 to 2005 she was in charge of training the sales and marketing network of the company Petrini -Spigadoro in Bastia Umbra (PG).

From 2006 to 2008 she was project manager for the traceability programmes of the agri-food chain at ISMEA (Institute of Services for the Agricultural Food Market).

From 2009 to 2016 she developed the promotion, marketing and communication of the direct sales network Campagna Amica – Coldiretti. She has provided strategic, management and training support to agricultural companies and associations throughout the country.

She specialises in agricultural supply chain tracking systems, with a focus on sustainability and social impact.

Since 2017, she has been project manager in the field of sustainable development in agriculture and territorial promotion. Since 2021, she collaborates with the Socialing Institute as an expert in the commercial and communication development of large distribution companies in Italy. In particular, she develops the themes of Green Kilometre products and services.

Aurelio Bruno

Neuroscientist and university professor

I was awarded my Ph.D. in Psychology and Cognitive Sciences by the Department of Psychology of the University of Florence. Upon graduation, I was hired by University College London, where I worked as post-doctoral research fellow in the Vision Research Laboratory. In 2019, I was awarded a Wellcome Trust Research Fellowship to work for four years at the University of York. In 2023, I joined the School of Psychology and Vision Sciences, at the University of Leicester, as a Lecturer.

I have considerable experience and knowledge in experimental psychology and cognitive neuroscience (EEG, MEG, fMRI). My research interests are mainly focused on visual perception, visual cognition, and time perception, in both neurotypical and neurodivergent individuals.