Data Science for Social Good (eBook)

Dr. Massimo Lapucci is Managing Director (Secretary General) of CRT Foundation, a philanthropic foundation based in Italy with an endowment of about three billion euro. He is Secretary General of 'Development and Growth Foundation', a CRT subsidiary focused primarily on impact investing, tech and innovation, and he is Managing Director of OGR, a former large industrial space in Turin, Italy, recently converted into an innovative and experimental center for contemporary culture, art, research and start-up in partnership with US accelerators. He was past Chair of the European Foundation Centre in Bruxelles, the network of institutional philanthropy which unites over 300 members from nearly 40 countries, including the USA. Dr. Lapucci has extensive international experience as Investment and Finance Officer and board member for public and private companies in various sectors and nonprofit organizations in the EU and the Americas, including the Rockefeller P.A. Europe, the advisory board of the London School of Economics-Marshall Institute, ISI Foundation in Turin, Italy and ISI Global Science Foundation in New York, NY, USA. He is Vice President of the Social Impact Agenda for Italy, and a member of the Global Social Impact Investment Steering Group. Dr. Lapucci also has a consolidated teaching experience at university level, and since 2006 he is a World Fellow at Yale University, USA.