21min Milano Conference (November 18-20)

His fields are neurophysiology, biomedical engineering, psychobiology, computational neuroscience… His academic CV intimidates both people in his fi…

Stefano Baldini was the gold medallist in the Olympic marathon in Athens 2004, winner of the 1996 world half-marathon championships, winner of the 199…

Vice President of the Toledo International Center for Peace, Shlomo Ben-Ami is an Oxford graduate historian, active in politics. He was Minister of In…

Is it possible to enter the mineral water business with nothing and build Sant’Anna in a mere 15 years? Is it possible, with a background in the build…

After graduating in physics, a brilliant career in space mission design and construction in Italy, Europe and the United States brought him to the top…

Marcello Binda, CEO of the Binda Group. Born in Milan in 1960, he graduated in economics and commerce from Milan’s Bocconi University before moving to…

He has spent his life in the realm of science, seeking an answer to one of the crucial questions of our age: “What role do our genes play in determin…

World-famous cellist, in 1986 Brunello was the first Italian musician to win the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. He now plays with the most prestig…

Currently the youngest newspaper editor in Italy, he is also probably the first not to be familiar with lead printing and the tap of typewriters. He w…

A director is above all someone who can convince producers that they need his film to make money and him to direct it. Campiotti’s stories are fragmen…

A great gymnast, he is an athlete known for his complete mastery of the discipline, a ” Lord of the Rings”. From an early age, the red-haired boy wit…

He is a true son of California, that land that has, for generations, been inspiring the world with its visions: cinema, 1968, the computer…He began …

Internationally famed architect, he tied many of his projects to the idea of listening to the natural and soaal environment His architecture is sustai…

Luca De Meo was the Chief Marketing Officer of Fiat Group Automobiles SpA and currently heads up marketing for the Volkswagen Group’s car division. He…

The natural berth for a serial entrepreneur who was able to combine the new economy’s potential for growth (keyword: imagination) with the entrepreneu…

Chairman of Banca Mediolanum, he is in charge of over 6,000 “family bankers” and 1,400 employees. The bank has over a million customers in Italy, admi…

Just like a diamond, Rita El Khayat has many faces, including psychiatrist, television and radio presenter, writer and artist, activist for women’s ri…

She began her career at a tender age: she was still studying and already she was working for the Afghan mothers and children who she was housed with i…

She began dancing at 6. At 8, she had a dream: become a nurse to help children in Africa. At 10, she moved to Milan to study at La Scala’s Ballet Scho…

Alberto Galgano is Chairman of the Galgano Group, a well-known management consulting company that brought the concept of “total quality” to Italy and …

Tara Gandhi has taken the message of her grandfather, Mahatma Gandhi, and has made it her own, re-proposing it as a model of action in the social sphe…

Chris Gardner is at the centre of one of the most amazing stories from the 20th century. He is the owner and CEO of Christopher Gardner International …

He is among the top scholars of the mind, and has dedicated his life to researching the codes that govern the workings of the mind, with particular at…

He is an economist and journalist, a free thinker and free spirit on a collision course with the editors at the papers where he worked, as well as bei…

Minute, versatile, passionate, she is a first grade star of Italian classical ballet….

All the protons and neutrons in this universe are made up of quarks, tiny particles shrouded in mystery. They always arrange themselves in threes and …

When she was assigned the class with the worst grades, and the most violent students in the school, she didn’t lose her spirit Within a year, she mana…

It is rare for a person to undertake the project of a lifetime at 18 years of age. But it is even more rare to see someone who has cultivated their or…

Ted Hart is CEO of Hart Philanthropic Services – an international consulting company providing services for non-profit organisations and NGOs – and fo…

There is no other woman like her in the history of Italian sport: a champion who chose the Italian flag and paddled her canoe to a record number of wo…

A descendant of a famous composer. Granddaughter of a grand maestro. Daughter of a well-known violin virtuoso and a pianist. She herself was a child p…

From his top position as President of the European Federation of High Tech Small and Medium Enterprises, Leprince enjoys a bird’s-eye view of the Old …

As a little girl, besides working in the fields and looking after her younger brothers, she had to walk barefoot for 10 kilometers every day to g…

A university lecturer in the science of education and President of the International Montessori Center, he has worked with Unicef for 30 years. The cu…

Pietro Paolo Mennea was the holder of the world 200m-record from 1979 to 1996 and a gold medallist at the Moscow Olympics in 1980. With an ability to …

Nives Meroi is a top Italian alpinist She is among the few women to have conquered eleven of the eight-thousanders, and the only woman to have climbed…

Andres Neumann, an internationally acclaimed theatre producer, founded the “Andres Neumann International” agency in Florence in 1978. This agency has …

After having studied with the great masters of international cuisine, he opened up new paths, far from prejudices and arrogance. Despite being a star …

One of the most famous contemporary artists and a leading exponent of Land, Body and Performance Art, he highlights the importance of a “creative visi…

Economist and sociologist, he is known also outside of academic drdes for his civil involvement, which may be described as everything but acquiescent….

She has pulled down gender barriers in chess. Not only has she won 4 world titles and 5 Olympic gold medals, but she was also the first female chess p…

Neurosdentist of considerable fame, his name is bound to a sensational discovery: mirror neurons, the brain cells that influence thought in an imitati…

He is one of toda y’s most courageous and influential visionaries and social entreprenem. The doors of his Barefoot College in Rajathan are open to al…

What could have brought a Hungarian architect and designer, the son of a poetess and an aircraft engineer, with a passion for geometry to invent the m…

The contribution provided by Michael Kell Ryan – co-founder of Ryanair, Europe’s leading low-cost airline – brings to light the secrets of the most im…

Not only is he young. Not only was he born and educated in the south. Not only has he become a major name in the field of materials research because h…

Maurizio Savi is General Manager of AIRC – the Italian association for the fight against cancer. Born in 1958, he graduated in business economics, spe…

It is no fun having to escape from your own country (Laos) at the age of 12 and then having to grow up in a country on the other side of the world (Ca…

2004, Athens Olympics. After winning bronze in Atlanta and gold in Sydney in the Mistral class for windsurfing, Alessandra Sensini was the favourite. …

He calls himself a “serial entrepreneur”. Every business that Serfaty touches gains a surprising tendency to grow, grow, grow… He has been active in…

Attorney and esteemed international negotiatior, he was Chief of the Cabinet under Bara k’s government in Israel, and head negotiator at the peace tal…

His Eminence Cardinal Ersilio Tonini became a priest in 1937, a bishop in 1969 (in Macerata) and archbishop of Ravenna in 1975. He was made a cardinal…

Julio Velasco is a sports legend. He has an impressive coaching record in which he brought every volleyball team he ever coached to the top, both male…

His story is of a humanist catapulted into the world of economics. Before becoming secretary-general of the Cariplo Foundation, he directed large firm…

Maria Valentina Vezzali was the first fencer to win three consecutive Olympic golds (Sydney, Athens and Beijing). Winner of five world titles and five…

Jirí Wackermann, born 1955 in Roudnice n.L. (Czechoslovakia), studied psychology at Charles University in Prague, and graduated in 1985. He was in act…