An innovation expert with a PhD in Urban Policies, when not being creative in the kitchen he works on designing services and innovative policies in justice, local government, new technologies and food. He is a partner in the organisational consultancy firm C.O. Gruppo and a policy analyst for the Milan Centre for Food Law and Policy, a frontline initiative between EXPO2015, the Milan Chamber of Commerce and the Lombardy Region.

He is a member of the board of the Future Food Institute, a non-profit organisation active in the development of innovative projects between entrepreneurship and the food sector. By night, he dreams of being a civic hacker, and of living through connecting intelligences.