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Moshe Abeles
His fields are neurophysiology, biomedical engineering, psychobiology, computational neuroscience... His academic CV intimidates both people in his fi...
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Marco Astorri
He is the father of a prodigy: he invented a type of plastic that bio-degrades in only forty days. The incredible advantage to this groundbreaking mat...
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Stefano Baldini
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...
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Shlomo Ben-Ami
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...
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Alberto Bertone
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...
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Selene Biffi
She has an exceptional idea: creating a world organisation to support young people's attempt to develop the territories they live in. Today, thanks to...
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Giovanni Bignami
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...
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Marcello Binda
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...
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Emilio Bizzi
When he enrolled in the Medicine Faculty at the Rome University the word "neuroscience" did not even exist yet. Today, he is a professor at the MIT an...
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Edoardo Boncinelli
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...
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Mario Brunello
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...
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Mario Calabresi
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...
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Giacomo Campiotti
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...
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Antonio Caprarica
He is surely one of the best-known faces of Italian news broadcasting. A correspondent that has made news coverage a joy, a pleasure with an aftertast...
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Martin Chalfie
He brought about a revolution in the world of research in molecular biology and thanks to his discovery of the green fluorescent protein he was awarde...
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Jury Chechi
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...
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Patricia Churchland
Are emotions the result of neuronal processes? Churchland believes it is so although she also acknowledges that there are many variables and that the ...
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Woodrow Clark II
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 ...
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Mario Cucinella
Internationally famed architect, he tied many of his projects to the idea of listening to the natural and soaal environment His architecture is sustai...
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Luca De Meo
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...
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Riccardo Donadon
The natural berth for a serial entrepreneur who was able to combine the new economy's potential for growth (keyword: imagination) with the entrepreneu...
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Ennio Doris
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...
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Rita El Khayat
Just like a diamond, Rita El Khayat has many faces, including psychiatrist, television and radio presenter, writer and artist, activist for women’s ri...
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Andeisha Farid
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...
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Mara Galeazzi
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...
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Alberto Galgano
Alberto Galgano is Chairman of the Galgano Group, a well-known management consulting company that brought the concept of "total quality" to Italy and ...
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Tara Gandhi
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...
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Chris Gardner
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 ...
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Michael Gazzaniga
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...
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Oscar Giannino
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...
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Giulio Giorello
He is used to taking very clear-cut, yet lucid and brave, stances. In the Italian cultural scene he stands out for his attitude and openness towards a...
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Letizia Giuliani
Minute, versatile, passionate, she is a first grade star of Italian classical ballet. ...
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David J. Gross
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 ...
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Erin Gruwell
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...
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Claudio Gubitosi
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...
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Ted Hart
Ted Hart is CEO of Hart Philanthropic Services - an international consulting company providing services for non-profit organisations and NGOs - and fo...
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Josefa Idem
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...
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Natasha Korsakova
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...
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Emmanuel Leprince
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 ...
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Tegla Loroupe
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...
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Chiara Lungarotti
A woman who conquered the traditionally-male top of the wine-making sector with charm and resolve. She’s the CEO of a company she inherited from her f...
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Augusto Marietti
19 and willing to bring about a revolution in the way web and mobile applications are made: a development platform for webmasters. An idea that everyo...
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Fiona May
Fiona May is an unmatched athletic talent and the Italian long jump record holder. She has won several medals and international trophies and she still...
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Luciano Mazzetti
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...
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Pietro Mennea
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 ...
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Nives Meroi
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...
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Paolo Nespoli
He is an Italian astronaut, engineer and military officer. He loves diving, piloting tourist planes, assembling computers and other electronic devices...
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Andres Neumann
Andres Neumann, an internationally acclaimed theatre producer, founded the “Andres Neumann International” agency in Florence in 1978. This agency has ...
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Davide Oldani
After having studied with the great masters of international cuisine, he opened up new paths, far from prejudices and arrogance. Despite being a star ...
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Filippo Ongaro
The European pioneer of functional and anti-aging medicine, he developed several methods to contrast fast aging astronauts are exposed to when in spac...
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Dennis Oppenheim
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...
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Raj Patel
Economist and sociologist, he is known also outside of academic drdes for his civil involvement, which may be described as everything but acquiescent....
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Susan Polgar
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...
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Mario Alonso Puig
A doctor who, besides combining thought, word and physiology, shows that the state of mind can radically affect the biological condition of the body. ...
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Federico Rampini
An attentive explorer. A reporter that does not just stay in the countries he works in but rather lives in and through the contexts he is sent to stay...
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Carlo Ratti
He is regarded as the most high-tech city planner in the world. With an eclectic training and a cosmopolitan soul, Carlo Ratti has an ambitious aim: m...
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Giacomo Rizzolatti
Neurosdentist of considerable fame, his name is bound to a sensational discovery: mirror neurons, the brain cells that influence thought in an imitati...
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Giampaolo Rossi
An arts and humanities graduate, he developed different professional experiences in the multi-modal integrated communications sector. For a long time ...
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Sanjit "Bunker" Roy
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...
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Erno Rubik
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...
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Kell Ryan
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...
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Marina Salamon
A talented entrepreneur that in a few years has built and presently runs a true economic empire. She believes in global market but she prefers real ec...
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Alessandro Sannino
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...
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Maurizio Savi
Maurizio Savi is General Manager of AIRC - the Italian association for the fight against cancer. Born in 1958, he graduated in business economics, spe...
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Sam Say
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...
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Alessandra Sensini
2004, Athens Olympics. After winning bronze in Atlanta and gold in Sydney in the Mistral class for windsurfing, Alessandra Sensini was the favourite. ...
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Dan Serfaty
He calls himself a "serial entrepreneur". Every business that Serfaty touches gains a surprising tendency to grow, grow, grow... He has been active in...
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Tali Sharot
One of the world’s leading experts of the mechanisms that regulate brain activity. A successful researcher that deals, in a very special and peculiar ...
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Gilead Sher
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...
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Card. Ersilio Tonini
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...
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Mario Tozzi
He is a geologist and journalist and also an expert in ecology and the host of several TV programmes on ecology and Earth in general. He is a vegetari...
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Enrique Vargas
One of the most thought-provoking director and drama researcher on the international scene. Founder of the Theatre of the Senses, he perceives and dev...
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Julio Velasco
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...
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Pier Mario Vello
His story is of a humanist catapulted into the world of economics. Before becoming secretary-general of the Cariplo Foundation, he directed large firm...
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Valentina Vezzali
Maria Valentina Vezzali was the first fencer to win three consecutive Olympic golds (Sydney, Athens and Beijing). Winner of five world titles and five...
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Jirí Wackermann
Jirí Wackermann, born 1955 in Roudnice n.L. (Czechoslovakia), studied psychology at Charles University in Prague, and graduated in 1985. He was in act...
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