GSForum Strategic Council

Executive Director of the Mediterranean Forum of Rome.

Vice-President of InResLab Research S.c.a.r.l. organization. Expert in Institutional Relations and Research & Innovations.

From 1997 to 2007 he has been Project Leader and Director of BU Research for high-level national research centres. From 2008 CEO of A.R.S. Sistemi Ltd, a firm involved in consulting activities, research, innovation, technology transfer and human capital.

From 2006 to 2014 Mr. Vito Cozzoli has been Chief of the Legal Council of the Italian Chamber of Deputies. In this field, his task was to direct the activities of juridical consultancy of the Chamber, representing and defending the parliamentary Institution.

From 2014 to 2016 he has been Head of Cabinet at the Economic Development Ministry.

Currently, he is Head of the Security Service at the Italian Chamber of Deputies.

In parallel, he carries out teaching activities in several Italian Universities such as LUISS Guido Carli, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Libera Università Mediterranea Jean Monnet di Bari and Università degli Studi “Link Campus University”.

Since 2014 Dr Gumina serves as an Economic Counsellor at the Cabinet Office of the Italian Minister of Economic Development, advising on innovative industrial policies for Smarter Cities, Start-Ups, Smart Factories (Industry 4.0).

As part of his responsibilities, he has been appointed as Italian Expert of G20 Task Force on Digital Economy (April 2016), member of the Investors’ Committee of Invitalia Ventures (since October 2015) and member of the Italian Ministerial Task Force for Smarter Cities (since September 2015).

He also contributed as an Expert to the Rapporteur of the European Economic and Social Committee in drafting a EESC’ own initiative opinion on “Smart Cities as a Driver of a new European Industrial Policy” (TEN/568).

Furthermore, he has been appointed (April 2015) as the national expert on Smart City by the Italian Digital Agency (AgID).

Current Director of the Research Centre on Social Innovation, Since 2001 Mr. Matteo Caroli is full professor of of Economy and management of international companies at LUISS Guido Carli.

He carries out activities of research on business management, collaborating with Confindustria, Enac, Banca Imi, Rai, Enel, Aeroporti di Puglia, Assoaeroporti, Infocamere.

Furthermore, Mr. Caroli helped Institutions and public societies in the field of territorial and touristic marketing, foreign investment and local economic development policies. His most recent collaborations are with Unioncamere nazionale, Consorzio industriale di Porto Torres, Regione Lazio, Cnel, Unione degli industriali di Roma, Provincia di Trento, Federazione Nazionale Consorzi Industriali and others.

Grazia Francescato is an environmental leader and journalist. She has served as President of WWF Italy, President of the Italian Greens and Spokesperson for the European Greens. She is also a former member of the Italian Parliament for the Green Party. Graduated in Foreign Languages and Literature at the Bocconi University, she collaborated with the most important magazins of the sector, such Airone, Natura Oggi, Oasis. Furthermore, she has been foreign correspondant of the ANSA, presenter of “GEO” (Rai 3) and special envoy in Africa and Latin America for “Il Viaggiatore”.

Experienced Senior Partner with a demonstrated history of working in large international transformation programs in the corporate Sector, Mr. Alessandro Grandinetti takes his steps in the fields of Corporate Transformation, Digital Strategy, Business and Control models improvement and redesign. Strong entrepreneurship, he graduated in Business/Managerial Economics at Università La Sapienza of Rome.

Stefano Scalera is currently Counsellor to the Minister of Economy and Finance for the attraction of investments. Among his responsibilities, Stefano is currently working on defining the policy for increasing public and private investment, the so-called “Juncker Plan”, the “Brexit” file and on the reform of the credit market (i.e. Finance for growth programme), the banking sector (fintech) and the securitization market.  

Stefano is an alternate board member at the European Investment Bank, board member of Difesa Servizi S.p.A. and President of IDEA FIMIT SGR S.p.A, He is also a member of the Bureau of the Housing and Land Management Committee at the UNECE. 

Author of various publications on the subject of financial markets, infrastructure and real estate, his research interest include Public debt, e-procurement and Europe Integration.

From Feb 2011, Stefano is Managing Director (Dirigente I fascia) at the Ministry of Economy and Finance; from 2014, Member of Master EREF Scientific Committee – Executive Real Estate Finance. From 2015 Stefano is a Member of the Infrastructure Steering Committee at LUISS Business School and form 2016 LUISS Adjunct Professor. 

Director of Agricultural Development Economics at the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, Rome.

Rob Vos, a national of the Netherlands, holds a PhD and an M.Sc. with honours in Economics from the Free University of Amsterdam, Netherlands. He is presently associated with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), responsible for economic analysis and policy support for sustainable agricultural development and food security. Since joining FAO in 2013, he has also served as director of social protection, rural employment and gender equality and as coordinator of FAO’s strategic programme for rural poverty reduction.

Prior to his appointment to FAO, Rob was the Director of Development Policy and Analysis in the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA), New York. In that capacity, he was responsible for the UN flagship publications “World Economic Situation and Prospects” and the “World Economic and Social Survey”. He also served as Secretary of the UN Committee for Development Policy and coordinated the Secretary-General’s Millennium Development Goals’ Gap Task Force as well as the UN Task Team for the Post-2015 UN Development Agenda.

Rob was also Professor of Finance and Development at the International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University, where he still holds an endowed professorship.

In addition, Rob has extensive academic and advisory work experience covering a broad range of development issues, including trade policy, inequality and poverty; financing for development; poverty and social policy analysis; and macroeconomic and general equilibrium modelling for development policy.

He is Member of several Board of Directors in the field of information, education and communication such as newspaper "Formiche", Internazionale, Askanews, Fondazione G. Capriglione and Fondazione Bruno Visentini. He has experience in multiple roles, and comfortable with highly diversified contexts and challenges by virtue of the years he spent serving the Italian Army and enterprises such as Swiss Re and Bartolini with the role of Operative Responsible. He has been Vice Director General of the LUISS University (2007-2013).

Director of the Center for American Studies (CSA), with the mission to strengthen the dialogue and the mutual knowledge between U.S. and Italy. Member of the RAI Board of Directors. He is the founder of the publishing project "Formiche" which addresses issues relating to economics, politics, and security amongst others. Former Communication Advisor of the Italian Environment Minister and former Member of the Board of Directors of several companies. Former Lecturer of Political and Economical Journalism at Sapienza University of Rome.