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Marco Simoni
President of Human Technopole Foundation

Marco Simoni (Rome, 13 September 1974) is an Italian academic and public manager.

He is currently Adjunct Professor at Luiss Business School in Rome[1] and he is the first President of the Human Technopole Foundation, the new Italian research institute for life sciences.[2]

Biography

He is married and has two children, both born in London.[3]

He has a degree in Political Science from the Sapienza University of Rome and a PhD in Political Economy from London School of Economics and Political Science which received the Juan J. Linz prize for best PhD thesis in Political Science in an EU member state.

He carried out research activity at the International Labour Organization in Geneva and in 2008 he received the Postdoctoral Fellowship from the British Academy for young researchers.[4]

From 2007 to 2016 he taught and carried out research at the London School of Economics, becoming Associate Professor in Political Economy.[5]

Government positions

From London, he moved to Italy in 2013 to take up the role of Chief Secretary for Deputy Minister for Economic Development Carlo Calenda, dealing with dossiers related to commercial policies, attraction of investments and policies for the internationalisation of Italy.

From 2014 to 2018, he was the International Economic Relations and Industrial Policy Councillor for Prime Ministers Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni.

In this role he managed national and international relations, political and legal dossiers, coordinating ministers and public agencies, and contributing to the economic agenda of the Prime Minister.

Between 2016 and 2018 he was a member of the Arexpo Board of Directors and of the Coordination Committee for the Human Technopole Project, to follow the redevelopment of the ex-EXPO area in Milan.[6]

Human Technopole

On 16 May 2018 he was appointed via Prime Minister decree as the first President of the Human Technopole Foundation, the new Italian research institute for life sciences set in Palazzo Italia. This is within the former EXPO 2015 site, now rebranded as MIND – Milano Innovation District.[7]

Publications

He is the author of numerous scientific publications[5] on issues of comparative capitalism and he wrote “Senza alibi: perché il capitalismo italiano non cresce più”, a book on the decline of the Italian economy, which was published by Marsilio in 2012.[8][9]

Since 2010, he is the author of an online blog on Il Post where he comments news on political economy and current affairs.[10] He has also collaborated with various other Italian dailies including Il Messaggero, Europa Quotidiano, l’Unità, il Sole 24 Ore, la Stampa and others.

References

  1. ^ "Marco Simoni | Luiss Business School - School of Management" (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-06-22.
  2. ^ "Welcome - HumanTechnopole". www.humantechnopole.it. Retrieved 2020-06-22.
  3. ^ "Marco Simoni: "La politica non è solo spendere soldi"". Luz - About Stories. Retrieved 2020-06-22.
  4. ^ "Postdoctoral Fellowship Awards 2008". The British Academy. Retrieved 2020-06-22.
  5. ^ a b "Marco SIMONI | PhD | LUISS Guido Carli, Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali, Rome | Luiss | Business School". ResearchGate. Retrieved 2020-06-22.
  6. ^ "Marco Simoni: "La politica non è solo spendere soldi"". Luz - About Stories. Retrieved 2020-11-19.
  7. ^ "Home". MIND - Arexpo. Retrieved 2020-06-22.
  8. ^ "Lo sviluppo frenato da misure incoerenti". Il Sole 24 ORE (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-06-22.
  9. ^ "L'ibridazione del capitalismo italiano come causa del suo declino (1990-2007)". Menabò di Etica ed Economia (in Italian). 2017-10-03. Retrieved 2020-06-22.
  10. ^ "Marco Simoni". Il Post (in Italian). 2020-04-15. Retrieved 2020-06-22.

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