Luca Cordero di Montezemolo

Executive Chairman and founder of Italo SpA, the first European private high-speed railway company and founder of Itabus, the first Italian private company of long-distance buses, where he have been member of the board until April 2023.
He is also President of Manifatture Sigaro Toscano and Fondazione Telethon.
He has been Chairman and CEO of Ferrari Auto S.p.A. since 1991 until 2014 where he won 19 world title and Chairman of Fiat Group and of Maserati S.p.A.
He has been President of Confindustria, President of LUISS University, Chairman of the Bologna International Trade Fair and Chairman of FIEG, the Italian Federation of Newspapers Publishers.
On 2015 he has been inducted in the Automotive Hall of Fame of Detroit, the international most prestigious award of this sector.
He was awarded with four honorary degrees: in Mechanical Engineering by the University of Modena, in Management Engineering by the University of Genoa, in Industrial Design Engineering by the Polytechnic of Milan and, finally, in Materials Physics by SISSA (Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati) of Trieste.