President, Pitti immagine. Managing director, Hugo Boss and the Valentino Fashion Group. President, Zignago Santa Margherita S.p.A.

She is director of the department of comparative biomedical sciences of the Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie (PD).

Professor of convertors, machinery and electronic activation. He has been rector of the Turin polytechnic since 2005.

Director of the fashion design course at IUAV university, Venice, critic and independent curator.

Mayor of Turin since 2001; earlier he worked in the secretariat of the Italian communist party, then with the Turin branch of the CGIL union, and he then became secretary of the Turin and Piedmont PDS party

Professor of Economic History at Politacal Science Faculty of Padua University.