Expo
The Scientific Committee
The Scientific Committee was set up once the government has confirmed the choice of Milan as Italy’s candidate city. This Committee is composed of leading personalities, Italian and international,
whose prestige will contribute to the popularity of Milan’s bid worldwide, who are an advertisement for Milan and Italy throughout the world, who offer innovative and emblematic ideas for interpreting the Expo theme, who are recognized world authorities on the Bid Committee’s chosen subjects.
Nominations for membership of the Scientific Committee was put forward by the worlds of culture, public institutions, architecture, science and invention.
Below, the list of international figures who have already confirmed their membership of the Committee:
PRESIDENT OF THE COMMITTEE
Roberto Schmid,
Director of the Institute for Advanced Study of Pavia IUSS
VICEPRESIDENT OF THE COMMITTEE
Gian Tommaso Scarascia Mugnozza,
President of the National Academy of Science
SECRETARY OF THE COMMITTEE
Adriano Gasperi,
Institute for Advanced Study of Pavia IUSS
INTERNATIONAL MEMBERS
Nagia Essayed
Commissioner of Human Resources, Science and Technology for the African Union
Amartya Sen,
Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998
Bao-Rong Lu,
Chairman of the Department of Ecology of FUDAN University, Shanghai, China
Zohra Ben Lakhdar,
Professor of Physic at Tunis University
Ismail Serageldin,
Former Chairman of the Consultive Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR)
Ana T. Saez,
Senior Advisor in Natural Resources Management, Venezuela
Sakiko Fukuda-Parr,
Former Director of the Human Development Report Office UNDP
Per Pinstrup-Andersen,
Former Director of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Chris Lamb,
Director of the John Innes Centre of Nordwich, UK
Walter Willett,
Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition, USA
ITALIAN MEMBERS
Pier Alberto Bertazzi,
University of Milan
Michele Carruba,
University of Milan
Giuseppe Enne,
University of Sassari
Arturo Falaschi,
Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa
Paolo Massobrio,
Enogastronomic Journalist
Alice Perlini,
Director General, Istituto Agronomico per l'Oltremare
Carlo Petrini,
President of the Slow Food International Association
Fabio Pigozzi,
Member of IOC Medical Commission
Enrico Porceddu,
Universita' degli Studi della Tuscia, Viterbo
Ferdinando Romano,
Former INRAN President
Luigi Rossi,
Director of Biotechnologies, Agro-industry and Health Protection Department, ENEA
Francesco Salamini,
Scientific Director of the Technology Park, Lodi
Claudia Sorlini,
Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture at Milan University
Giorgio Vittadini,
University of Milano Bicocca