Urban development between private and public investments

Piero Pelizzaro has 14 years of experience in climate change policy and urban resilience planning. He is currently director of the Public Property Regeneration Laboratory of the Agenzia del Demanio. He is a consultant to the Ministry of Ecological Transition for the National Climate Change Adaptation Plan. He is a member of SISC, the Italian Society for Climate Science, and of the European Commission's Mayors Adapt Practitioners Work Group. He writes for several specialised magazines and web portals on climate change issues.

He is full professor of History of Political Doctrines at the University of Bologna. He has taught at Columbia University in New York and was the coordinator of the doctorate in History, Cultures and Politics of the Global. He directs the Academy of Global Humanities and Critical Theory, the master's programme in management and co-production of participatory processes, communities and neighbourhood networks, and is president of the Foundation for Urban Innovation. He has published with many prestigious publishing houses, including Il Mulino, Einaudi, Laterza, Cambridge University Press and Princeton University Press and has been translated into English, French, German, Spanish and Japanese.

Mario Abbadessa is Senior Managing Director & Country Head Hines Italy. He started his career in Hines in 2010 and in 2015 he assumed the role of Managing Director & Country Head of Hines Italy, becoming responsible for all Hines Group activities in Italy. In March 2019, at the age of 35, he is appointed Senior Managing Director of Hines Italy by the Board of Hines Global, in fact being the youngest manager in the group to reach this milestone internationally. Since 2015, under the leadership of Mario Abbadessa, Hines has completed real estate investments of more than €3 billion in the historic centres of Milan and Florence, building a team of more than 40 people. Before joining Hines he was Investment Analyst at Generali Immobiliare Italia SGR after an initial experience at Tishman Speyer.

Giovanni Manfredi is a Managing Director Aermont Capital LLP. Prior to joining in 2016, Giovanni was a Portfolio Manager at Norges Bank Investment Management in London. Prior to that, Giovanni was a consultant at Bain & Co. in Milan. Prior to that, Giovanni was an Associate at Merrill Lynch in London. Giovanni started his career at UBS in Milan and London. Giovanni graduated with a degree in Business Administration from Bocconi University in Milan.

An architect and journalist. In 2014, he co-founded the company PPAN Communication and Networking for the Built Environment with Andrea Nonni. PPAN works with both public and private clients to develop and coordinate communication plans, with management activities focusing particularly on urban regeneration. PPAN is also a publisher, responsible for two journalistic publications, "thebrief" and "Pantografo Magazine." Since 2004, he has been involved in journalistic activities, starting with Il Sole 24 Ore, where he worked for ten years, continuing his collaboration on topics related to architecture and real estate.