Francesco Profumo

President of the Board of Directors at Quadrivio Group Italy S.r.l. and member of Quadrivio Group's Strategic Committee. Head of the Faculty of Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Turin and Dean of the same institute between 2005 and 2011; Minister of Education, University and Research from 2011 to 2013; President of CNR - National Research Council of Italy from 2011 to 2012; President of Compagnia di San Paolo from 2016 to 2024. More recently, he has been appointed as Board Member of the European Commission's European Innovation Council and is currently also President of Isybank, the digital bank belonging to the Intesa Sanpaolo group.