Speakers
Pablo Ernesto Piovano – photojournalist
Pablo Ernesto Piovano (Buenos Aires, 1981), who was awarded the World Press Photo in 2024 and 2026—the most prestigious international award in the field of photojournalism and documentary photography—is widely recognised, in particular, for his commitment to the indigenous peoples of South America, environmental protection and his work highlighting the devastating effects of agrochemicals. He contributes to various media outlets, including Geo, Stern, Liberation, L’Expresso, Bloomberg and others. His work has been exhibited in major European museums and festivals.
Melissa Carnemolla – photojournalist
Melissa Carnemolla is an Italian photographer whose work focuses on marginalised stories and social dynamics. Since 2021, she has been developing *The Island within The Island*, a project that explores the hidden realities behind fruit and vegetable production in Sicily’s *Fascia Trasformata* region, revealing often-overlooked aspects of agricultural life on the island. Through an approach that is both social and symbolic, her practice explores themes related to isolation and belonging. Based on often long-term collaborations, her research aims to open a dialogue with the subjects and contexts she engages with, whilst questioning the role and position of photography itself.
Pierpaolo Mittica – photojournalist
Pierpaolo Mittica is an internationally renowned photographer and filmmaker who contributes to leading national and international publications, including La Repubblica, Corriere della Sera, L’Espresso, Internazionale, National Geographic, Der Spiegel, Die Zeit, Newsweek, The Economist and Days Japan International.
He has made three feature-length documentaries and 27 short documentaries:
Living Toxic Ep 1 Russia, Sydonia 2014
Behind the Urals, Mondo in Cammino 2015
The Zone, road to Chernobyl, Subwaylab, 2018
His documentaries have been broadcast on: Amazon Prime Video, Al Jazeera, Discovery Channel, RSI TV Switzerland, TVN 24 (Poland), Société Radio-Canada (Canada), Slovakia 1 and 2 (Slovakia), InsideOver, Internazionale.
He is a speaker at numerous conferences in Italy, Europe, the United States and Japan and has received more than 100 international awards.
Daniele Trabucco – constitutional expert
Daniele Trabucco, Professor of Constitutional Law and Comparative Public Law at the SSML/San Domenico University Institute in Rome. Visiting Professor of Constitutional Law at the European University of Lisbon.
Kutluhan Özdemir – farmer
Kutluhan Ozdemir, a farmer and former mathematician who has dedicated his life to promoting natural farming around the world. He founded Shizen Farm in the Marche region and is the author of the book *Natural Farming and the Art of Doing Nothing*, published by Terra Nuova in 2024. He is co-founder of the RAN association, comprising individuals, farmers and agricultural projects committed to promoting the revolutionary potential of natural agriculture
Mauro Rango – Ippocrate Foundation president
Mauro Rango was born in Padua in 1961. He graduated in Political Science, International Relations and Human Rights in the same city. He spent part of his life in Africa, where he was also involved in international cooperation and the right to health. Mauro Rango is the founder of IppocrateOrg and its ecosystem, and the author of the book “Building a New World: the role of the Multitude”.
Alberto Mantovani – professor
Alberto Mantovani, born in 1956, is a veterinary surgeon who graduated from the University of Bologna, an institution that instilled in him an interdisciplinary approach and an understanding of the integration between animal and human health, with a primary focus on safeguarding food safety.
He worked for 40 years at the Italian National Institute of Health on the assessment of risks posed by toxic substances in the environment and in food. He launched and organised the first national project on endocrine disruptors (2000–03), as well as PREVIENI, the first national biomonitoring project on these contaminants, which produced, among other things, the Citizen’s Guide to Endocrine Disruptors (2011–14); Since 2000, he has collaborated with European and international scientific agencies, starting with the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA); he was a member of the working group that produced the consensus definition of Endocrine Disruptors in Europe (Solecki et al., 2017). It was precisely food safety, according to the EFSA’s ‘farm-to-fork’ approach, that led him to take a leading role in the development of ‘One Health’, the vision that links human health to animal health and the environment they share: in 2021, he co-chaired the first international Summer School on the environmental component of One Health.
He is now happily retired and keeps himself busy: he is involved in cooperation activities with the Caucasus, sits on the Risk Assessment Committee of the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA), and is vice-president of the KOS Study Centre – Science, Art and Society, a third-sector organisation with the One Health approach at its core.
Fernando Piterà di Clima – University Professor
Fernando Piterà di Clima is a surgeon specialising in homeopathy, homotoxicology, phytotherapy and biotherapies.
Dr Piterà is one of the leading experts in gemmotherapy, with in-depth knowledge of buds, their potential and their uses. He is the author of several books on gemmotherapy.
Carla Ferreri – formerly a senior researcher at the CNR
Carla Ferreri, formerly a Research Director at the CNR, is a world-renowned scientist regarded as a pioneer in the molecular approach to membrane lipidomics and in the study of oxidative stress in relation to human health. Her work combines cutting-edge research with technology transfer: she is the inventor of a method for analysing cellular membrane lipidomics and co-founder of Lipinutragen, an official CNR spin-off. The author of over 250 international scientific publications, three books and numerous patents, she is a globally recognised authority in the fields of biochemistry, personalised nutrition and precision medicine.
Paolo Bellavite – Former lecturer in general pathology at the University of Verona
Paolo Bellavite graduated in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Trieste in 1976 and specialised in Clinical and Laboratory Haematology in 1979; he subsequently obtained a Master of Science in Biotechnology from Cranfield University (UK) and a postgraduate diploma in Health Statistics and Epidemiology. He taught General Pathology at the University of Padua (Verona campus) and later at the University of Verona from 1980 to 2017, and at the University of Ngozi (Burundi) from 2010 to 2019, the latter on a voluntary basis as part of cooperation projects. After retirement, until June 2021, he continued a research collaboration with the University of Verona as a Subject Expert in General Pathology within the Department of Medicine. His and his research group’s main areas of study focused on the molecular and cellular aspects of inflammation and the development of laboratory methods for leukocytes, platelets and plasma. He has also worked in the fields of complementary medicine, nutraceuticals, vaccinology and the treatment of COVID-19. He is the author of over 300 publications, 177 of which are indexed in the ‘PubMed’ database, and 15 books. His work has been cited over 10,300 times, with an H-index of 56.