Barbara Buchner is Director, Climate Policy Initiative of Venice. Up to 2009 she was an analyst at the International Energy Agency of Paris (IEA), where she focused on the Kyoto Protocol and studied different possible approaches to the greenhouse effect.

He is Directeur de Recherche at CNRS, the national research agency of France and heads the Centre Edgar Morin.

Mario Monti is currently President of the Università Bocconi of Milan and its former Rector (1989-2004) and Honorary President of Bruegel, a think tank supported by 16 Member States and 28 multinational corporations founded in Brussels in 2005, of which he was the first president.

Energy, environmental, and agricultural economist John Reilly focuses on understanding the role of human activities as a contributor to global environmental change and the effects of environmental change on society and the economy.

Medical doctor and nutritionist, Gabriele Riccardi is a professor of Endocrinology and Metabolic Pathologies at the Università degli Studi of Naples “Federico II”, where he has also been director of the Human Nutrition department since 2008.

Recognized in the field as one of the world’s foremost scientists in the field of cellular transplants, Ricordi invented the process that has made it possible to isolate human pancreas insulin-producing cells and executed the first series of clinical transplants of pancreatic islets which have shown promising results in the treatment of diabetes.

A medical doctor and scientist who has always been dedicated to the fight against cancer, Umberto Veronesi is Scientific Director of the European Institute of Oncology of Milan. He is an expert consultant to the Italian Supreme Health Council, President of the International Sentinel Node Society (ISNS), President of the National Oncology Commission of the Italian Health Ministry and member of the Environmental Communication Committee of the Italian Ministry of the Environment and Territorial Protection.