Board of Directors
Richard Hodges
President
Dr. Richard Hodges, OBE
President
Dr. Richard Hodges, OBE, is President Emeritus of the American University of Rome and Professor of Archaeology at the University of East Anglia, UK. A board member of the Packard Humanities Institute (2004-present), he was formerly the Williams Director of the Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, USA, Director of the British School at Rome (1988-95), Director of the Prince of Wales’s Institute of Architecture (1996-98) and Scientific Director of the Butrint Foundation (1994-12).
He has worked in Italian archaeology since 1978, participating in the Biferno valley survey (1978-79), the San Vincenzo project (1980-98) and the Montarrenti project (1982-87). He is the author of many books, including Dark Age Economics, Mohammed, Charlemagne and the Origins of Europe, The Anglo-Saxon Achievement, Wall to Wall History, Towns and Trade in the Age of Charlemagne, Goodbye to the Vikings and (with Riccardo Francovich) Villa to Village, all published by Bloomsbury Academic.
Tracy Roberts
Vice President
Tracy Roberts
Vice President
From California, Tracy Roberts is Italian by adoption and co-founded LoveItaly with Luigi Capello in 2016. After graduating in Linguistics from the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA), Tracy went to live in Rome, Italy where she started English Yellow Pages (1984 to 2011), a directory of English-speaking professionals, businesses and services in Italy. In 1988, she co-founded Interazione, a public relations firm. Her primary role in the company focused on development and management of clients’ relations with the international press as well as government and institutional relations.
From 2002-2006, Tracy was the Executive Director of The Rome Chamber Music Festival and participated in the creation of what is considered one of Rome’s most important annual musical events. She was responsible for overseeing all aspects of the organization, including international fundraising, corporate sponsorship, management and public relations.
Stefano Pighini
Executive Vice President
Stefano Pighini
Vice President
Stefano Pighini is a Business Angel with thirty years of managerial experience leading development and M&A, special financing and establishing new companies, working with companies including Philip Morris, Pirelli, ENI and Enel. He has managed leasing and factoring companies, pension funds and financial activities. He took part in the initial listing in the stock market of Eni and Enel in Milan and New York, and Pirelli Tyre in Amsterdam. Currently, he is the CEO and President of companies active in the field of renewable energy.
Previously mentor at Enlabs s.r.l., former President at MentorCo s.r.l., President of the Association for Entrepreneurial Development, President of Umbria Agripower s.r.l., he is also active in the field of not-for-profit associations; he was Secretary, Treasurer and Vice Chairman of UCID (Union of Christian entrepreneurs and managers), Treasurer and President of the Federation of Blue Ribbon. He is chairman of LVenture Group.
Marco Grassi
Marco Grassi
Marco Grassi, a mechanical engineering graduate, is an investor in smart-community platforms and start-ups with 25 years of experience in Information Communication Technology companies such as Telefonica, IBM and Atradius Credit where he served in management positions in Italy and abroad. He has managed multiple international projects and company turnarounds for equity funds and family trusts.
He is currently leading co-research projects on Big Data and Business Intelligence with research centers such as the European Institute of Technology in Trento (UNITN) and the Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering of the Sapienza University in Rome. He is an activist in several initiatives to bring innovative technologies to Cultural Heritage and social environment projects. Marco is member of Innovation and Technology workgroups in Confindustria and has been Executive Board member of non-profit management associations.
Gloria Arditi
Gloria Arditi
Gloria Arditi is an architect who received her PhD in Technology of Architecture from the University Ludovico Quaroni, La Sapienza. She worked on the New York restoration project for the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island and studied at Columbia University where she wrote a thesis on the Restoration of the Edifices of the Modern Movement. Gloria has curated, edited and written about architecture, art, and design for Disegno Industriale/Industrial Design, DIID, and IL PROGETTO and published a book on Gio Ponti: Venti Cristalli di Architettura.
In 2006 she was appointed Vice President of the Palatina- Istanbul Association, UNESCO Agency, writing a proposal for the restoration of Villa Tarabya (a masterpiece of Italian art deco architecture) for the Italian Foreign Ministry. With Studio Gentiloni Silveri, she participated in the restoration of various historical buildings in Rome and fundraised to finance restoration work in the Papal Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls.
Dario Beccarini
Dario Beccarini
Dario Beccarini (PhD) consults on antique paintings, drawings and books for museums, auction houses and collectors in Europe, USA and Latin America. He teaches History of Art at Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata.
Francesco Sforza Cesarini
Francesco Sforza Cesarini
Francesco Sforza Cesarini manages a real estate company and a family office in Rome. Previously president for Lazio of the Associazione Dimore Storiche Italiane, a private association that helps private owners to preserve historical buildings and the heritage they represent. He is passionate about civic involvement and founded the Associazione Rione Ponte e Dintorni which actively participates in debates and projects with the local authorities to improve the quality of life of Rome’s historical centre.
He went to high school in the UK and to college in the US at the Jesuit University in San Francisco where he graduated with a BBA in 1988 and an MBA in 1989. He worked in finance from 1990 to 2011 in Switzerland, Portugal, France, the UK and Italy. In Milan he worked at Caboto Sim, in Rome for BNL and JP Morgan. Over the years he has travelled extensively and is passionate about history.
Francesca Grassi
Francesca Grassi
Francesca, a management engineering graduate, is Management Consultant Assistant at EY Advisory SpA since 2017. During this time, she has specialized in Project Management and Business Process Analysis in financial services. As a member of the Board of Directors of LoveItaly, representing Iuvart, she is responsible for defining and developing initiatives dedicated to under 35s in order to promote and support Italy’s cultural heritage.
Giovanni Gazzola
Giovanni Gazzola
Giovanni Gazzola is an investor with over 20 years of experience in ICT. He has worked for prestigious companies such as Olivetti and GFI. He has managed institutional clients in the Public Administration (Minister of Treasury and Ministry of Justice) and Communication (Telecom).
After founding EnLabs Srl in 2011 for which he was CEO, he co-founded LVenture Group SpA in 2013 for which he was COO until 2021. In 2013 he also became Chairman & CEO of LV.EN Holding srl. Giovanni has managed many successful national working groups.
Carlo Felicioni
Carlo Felicioni
Giovanni Adorni Braccesi
Giovanni Adorni Braccesi
Giovanni Adorni Braccesi completed 40 years of diplomatic career as Italy’s Ambassador to Ireland, where for two years he also directed the Italian Institute of Culture in Dublin, organising numerous events and exhibitions on the multiple aspects of Italy. In addition to being an agricultural entrepreneur, he has initiated a series of conferences at Trinity College (Dublin) on international relations.
Oscar Bezzi
Oscar Bezzi
Scientific Committee
Lorenza Mochi Onori
Lorenza Mochi Onori
President
Lorenza Mochi Onori began her career in 1978, following her studies with Prof. Giulio Carlo Argan, as an art historical inspector for the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities, in Le Marche, in Macerata and subsequently in the Superintendence of Pesaro-Urbino and Ancona.
She was appointed Director of the National Gallery of Ancient Art in Palazzo Barberini (1982-2003), Acting Superintendent of the Superintendence for the Historical, Artistic and Ethno-anthropological Heritage of Le Marche (2003-2004) where she added to the collections of the National Gallery of Le Marche with the purchase of works of great importance for the regional culture. She also acted as interim Superintendent for the Historical, Artistic and Ethno-anthropological Heritage of Bologna, Ferrara, Forlì, Cesena, Ravenna and Rimini from 2007 to 2008.
She has worked with the University of Rome “La Sapienza” – Institute of Art History, the University of Palermo – Department of History of Architecture, the University of Rome 3 – Institute of Art History and the Scuola Normale di Pisa. She is a member of the Raffaello Academy of Urbino, the Marchigiana Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts and the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Pesaro.
She has held the position of Superintendent for the Special Superintendence for the Historical, Artistic and Ethno-anthropological Heritage and the Polo Museale of Naples since 2009.
Carlo Giantomassi
Carlo Giantomassi
After graduation from the Central Institute of Restoration in Rome (1966) and advanced courses working on the Cappella della Maddalena, Assisi (1967-68), Giantomassi then worked at Tecni.Re.Co, (1979-80) a cooperative he was President of; Donataella Zari later joined the company. Giantomassi taught restoration and conservation at the Course for Cultural Heritage Maintenance Workers in Spoleto (1970-1980), consulted and presented interventions at the School of Conservation and Restoration in Botticino and held seminars on restoration at the School for Crafts and Restoration in Rome and the UNESCO headquarters in Venice. He has taught Restoration of Mural Paintings (ICCROM) and stone restoration (ICR), and painting technique (various Italian universities, and Yale University at ICCROM). He held conferences in Cartagena, Colombia on behalf of the IIC and the Catholic University of Bogota.
He was awarded the tile of Official Knight of Merit of the Italian Republic in 2002 by the President of the Republic Ciampi; an Honorary Degree in Letters and Philosophy by the University of Fribourg (CH) in 2015; the Zanotti Bianco prize by Italia Nostra for the restoration of Pinturicchio’s frescoes in Spello (1974); and the National Award of Excellence Profeti in Patria (2004).
Giantomassi continues to work in restoration in Italy and abroad; including as part of the Commission for the restoration of Luca Giordano’s Cason del Buen Retiro in the Museo Nacional del Prado in Madrid.
Rossella Pace
Rossella Pace
Rossella Pace currently works at the Centro per il libro e la lettura del Ministero della Cultura of the Ministry of Culture, coordinating initiatives, projects and awards dedicated to schools in collaboration with the MIM (Ministry of Education) and MAECI.
Previously she was an archaeologist at the Directorate General of Museums of MiC, in charge of projects in collaboration with the Carabinieri Command for the Protection of Cultural Heritage and the National Roman Museum.
Having graduated in classical archaeology with a thesis on a Pompeian theme, she was part of the MIUR young researchers program at the University of Calabria; a scholarship holder at the Benedetto Croce Institute of Historical Studies in Naples – for ancient history; winner of the International Prize Colonie Magna Grecia.
Later she worked as a researcher in classical archaeology at CNRS-ENS in Paris and was appointed director of the Eolide archaeological mission in Turkey for the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She has taught classical archaeology and archaeological research methodology at the University of Calabria and History of Ancient Art at the University of Tours.
Founding Members
Gloria Arditi
Luigi Capello
Victoria Ericks
Giovanni Gazzola
Marco Grassi
Richard Hodges
Roberto Magnifico
Stefano Pighini
Tracy Roberts
Francesco Sforza Cesarini
Francesco Tamburella
Helga Weishaupl
International Honorary Members
Heidi Thomas Kühn
Silvia Costa
Prof. Fausto Zevi
Nancy Bikson
Sustaining Members
Christina Formichella
Charles Garrett
Consultants
Maxwell Anderson, Senior Project Advisor
Victoria Ericks, Media Director & Project Curator
