Marco Bani, 31 years of age. After a Master’s Degree in Digital Humanities, he started a collaboration with King’s College of London, CCH (Centre for Computing in The Humanities).
His first assignment was as Assistant Lecturer for the MA Course in Digital Culture.
Later he became Research Fellow at King’s Visualization Lab, a CCH internal team specialised in the use of computer graphics in research. In 2008 he was elected city councillor in Pisa. In 2011 he started his PhD in “Politics, Human Rights and Sustainability” at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, with a thesis on the promotion of democracy through the Internet and Social Media. After a period as Visiting Student at the Center for Civic Media, Media Lab, MIT, when the Letta Government was formed in April 2013, he became Principal Private Secretary of the Minister of Education, University and Research, Maria Chiara Carrozza.
He held this office until February 2014. At present he collaborates with the Agency for Digital Italy.