Virginia Debernardi

Munich, Germany Legal Counsel in-house Born in Italy, I spent my formative years at IST, enriching my foundation before venturing to the Netherlands for higher education and then worked in a law firm in Brussels — that’s the quick download on my backstory. With my LL.M. degrees in hand, I jetted off to Spain, clocking […]

Karen Daigneault

Springfield, United States Retired My family moved to Torino in August 1971. I was 8 years old, my sister was 14 and my brother was 13. We attended AIST in 71-72 Carpe Diem !

Pietro Civallero

Bologna, Italy Eataly’s store manager Born in Torino, lived in the Langhe area for 3 years where I became passionate about food and wine. Today a highly driven, cheerful and forward-thinking gastronomer managing Eataly’s store operations following the “good, clean and fair” Slow Food philosophy. Ama il tuo sogno se pur ti tormenta.

Marco Cantamessa

Moncalieri, Italy After I left IST (at that time ACAT) I attended Italian schools and graduated in Electronics Engineering at Politecnico di Torino. I have worked at Politecnico since, initially as assistant, and then as associate and full professor. In parallel to my academic appointments, I have worked with startups, venture capital and, more recently, […]

Marta Bongioanni

Torino, Italy After graduating IST I moved on to Italian university and am now working for a Malaysian company in the Turin interland