The future of the past

Attorney and Professor of law and economics, Vice-president of the Superior Council of Magistracy since 2014. He was Undersecretary of the Council Presidency of the Letta cabinet, in charge of the Publishing department and responsible for the Implementation of the Government’s programme, as well as State Undersecretary of the Ministry of Economy and Finance of the Renzi cabinet. Among his past duties, vice-president of the Committee on Economic Programming and Budget for the Senate, member of the 5^th Committee on Economic Programming and Budget and of the Parliamentary committee for the implementation of the administrative reform.

International culinary talent, he runs the restaurant Hoja Santa and the winery Niño Viejo: both of them are projects by Albert Adrià, brother of Ferran Adrià, who is among the most important chefs in the world. He promoted a new concept of gastronomy inspired to the spread of the true Mexican cuisine; he recently coordinated the gala dinner promoted by Masterchef on occasion of the great exhibition dedicated to Mexican artist Frida Kahlo at the Scuderie del Quirinale (Quirinal Stables) in Rome.

Anthropologist, director and film producer. President of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. CEO & Creative Director of Spring Films Ltd, he directed Night will Fall (2014) and produced the award-winning The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence (Special jury prize at the 71st Venice International Film Festival). 

British world-renowned photographer. Throughout his career he captured and told the faces and the stories of the last tribal communities left in the world. His photographic project Before They Pass Away, realized in 2014 and dedicated to the endangered populations, was hosted on the pages of The National Geographic and was defined by the New York Times: “A project taking years and is less ethnology or anthropology than a document of his romance with otherness".