Our Speakers

Cesare Damiano is a member of the INAIL Board of Directors, President of Labour & Welfare, and advisor to the Minister of Employment. A university lecturer and author of numerous publications, he conducts research, training and consulting in Occupational Safety, Employment Policy, Industrial Relations, Collective Bargaining, Corporate Welfare, Social Security, and Supplementary Health. He was Minister of Employment in the second Prodi government, and Chairman of the Chamber of Deputies’ Labour Commission under the seventeenth Legislature.

Pietro Martello is a retired Supreme Court Judge and former President of the Milan Employment Court. With more than twenty judges, this Court is the most prominent of its kind in Italy, with jurisdiction over proceedings regarding labour relations, statutory social security, compulsory assistance, and dismissals. He has held numerous positions in Italy and internationally during his illustrious career, such as: in 1988 member of the Italian Delegation to the Human Rights Commission at the United Nations (UN), headquarters in Geneva; and in 1999 member of the Italian Delegation in the Preparatory Commission of the International Criminal Court, at the United Nations (UN), New York office. Moreover, he is Editor-in-Chief of the LavoroDirittiEuropa online magazine, a quarterly periodical promoting knowledge of labour law from an integrated European Union legal system perspective.

Professor of Hygiene and Public Health at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome. Scientific Advisor to the Italian Minister of Health for the coronavirus pandemia. Scientific Director of Istituti Clinici Scientifici Maugeri. President of Mission Board for Cancer of European Commission. Chair of the Scientific Committee of Human Technopole Foundation. Past President of the European Public Health Association (EUPHA) (2003-2004 and 2010-2014). Past President of the World Federation of Public Health Associations (WFPHA) (2020-2022)

Lorraine Larman have worked in the service industry for over 40 years. She has a broad portfolio of experiences including overseeing the Compliance and Health and Safety within a wide range of sectors, from Crime Scene, Healthcare, Quarries, Power stations, Retail and Office Cleaning She is committed to the ethos of Health and Safety and the benefits of training to ensure understanding. Her training experiences include helping companies in achieving accreditations in ISSA CIMS, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 among others.

Graduate in Medicine and Surgery, Ph.D. in Infectious Diseases, and with a Master’s in Healthcare Economics. Formerly a researcher at the University of Rome Tor Vergata Department of Public Health and at the CNR, he teaches the Master’s Degree course at Tor Vergata on “Healthcare Economics” and “Local Medicine”, and teaches at the “La Sapienza” University of Rome’s Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Postgraduate School. He became Chairman of the OSA Board in 2000. In 2010, he became Chairman of Confcooperative Sanità and Confcooperative Sanità Lazio, and Vice Chairman of Confcooperative Lazio. He has written for a hundred or so Italian and international scientific publications.

Luigi Sbarra began his career at Fisba CISL in Locri, rising up through the union's ranks to senior level at CISL Calabria, a role he held until December 2009. In April 2016, he was elected General Secretary of FAI CISL Nazionale. On 28 March 2018, the General Council elected him Deputy General Secretary for the CISL national organization. He was elected General Secretary on 3 March 2021, and unanimously reappointed CISL General Secretary on 28 May 2022, at the end of the nineteenth Confederal Congress.

Jenny Logenius is Essity’s Global Brand Manager for the professional hygiene brand Tork and is especially focused on hygiene and health related matters. She is a representative at the Private Organizations for Patient Safety (POPs) an initiative of the World Health Organization, Clean Hospitals and UNFs AMR Cross Industry Collaboration. She has a long experience working with the healthcare industry and developing innovations such as products, services and trainings related to improved patient safety in the fields of hand hygiene and surface hygiene.

Patricia (Patty) Olinger is the Executive Director of the Global Biorisk Advisory Council, (GBAC), a division of ISSA. For over 20 years she has been involved with the development of international standards for biorisk management such as the GBAC STARTM facility accreditation program, designed to assist facilities, companies and governments to Prepare, Respond & Recover from events involving infectious diseases including pandemics. For 13 years she has been the Executive Director of the Environmental, Health and Safety Office at Emory University. She spent 21 years in the Pharmaceutical Industry, providing support to both human and animal health research. From 2013-2018, she has been a board member of the Elizabeth R. Griffin Foundation, leading initiatives on global Biorisk management, obtaining practical experience with staff and facilities in extremely low resource environments.

He has run the CNS integrated technical and development unit since 2017. The design structure, tender office, requirements and SOA office, as well as the "OFM" order management IT platform, CNS's main strategic asset to members, report to his directorate. He oversees CNS and its member companies’ competitive advantages when participating in public and/or privately-called procedures, pursuing opportunities on the private market in synergy with the Commercial Department. He is also responsible for the CNS innovation network and relations with Universities and Research Institutions, suppliers, etc. He is a member of the BI-REX Emilia Romagna Competence Center Board of Directors, and plays an active CNS committee role for managing the framework agreement on innovation and research with the Milan Politecnico University.

Franco Arminio was born and lives in Bisaccia, in Eastern Irpinia. He has published many books, which have reached tens of thousands of readers. For years he has been traveling and writing, in search of wonder and in defense of small towns; he is the inspiration and reference point for many actions against the depopulation of internal Italy. He conceived and carries on the House of Landscape in Bisaccia and the festival "The moon and the badlands" in Aliano.

Giordano Bruno Guerri, writer and journalist, was born in Monticiano (Siena) in 1950. Historian and scholar of the 20th century, he is specialized in the Fascist period and in the relationship between Italian state and Church. After graduating in 1974 at Università Cattolica in Milan, he collected various experience in the field of journalism and publishing industry, such as the appointment as Director of the monthly publication Storia illustrata (1985), Editorial Director for Mondadori (1986), and the collaboration with Il Giornale. As professor of Contemporary History, he taught classes in some universities in Madrid, Rio de Janeiro and Rome. Since 2008 he has been President of the Foundation Il Vittoriale degli Italiani in Gardone Riviera, director of GardaMusei since 2015 and Superintendent of the Foundation Erice Arte in Erice since 2020.

Raffaele Bruno is Full Professor of Infectious Diseases and Director of the UOC of Infectious Diseases and Medical Department of the IRCCS San Matteo Foundation. His study and research activity has focused on aspects of HIV infection and HCV-HBV viral hepatitis and in recent years on COVID 19. He has participated in the drafting of numerous national and international guidelines. He is the author of over 300 publications in national and international scientific journals with impact factor >2000 and h index of 60.

An Italian psychiatrist and sociologist (b. Turin 1951), Crepet graduated in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Padua (1976), and in Sociology from the University of Urbino (1980), specializing in Psychiatry at the University of Padua Psychiatric Clinic (1985). Close to F. Basaglia (from whom he inherited a staunchly anti-psychiatric approach), he is a prolific author of essays investigating various aspects of contemporary malaise, combining a rigorous scientific approach with a clear and popular writing style.

A man of the theatre and a civil and social rights activist, Ovadia was born in Bulgaria in 1946 to a Jewish-Sephardic family. The form of "musical theatre" he developed draws on his experience as an actor and musician. He came to the attention of the general public and critics in 1993 with Oylem Goylem, a cabaret-style musical theatrical creation inspired by Yiddish culture that he helped divulge through his own contemporary interpretation, in a form of musical theatre unique in Italy and Europe. In the movie business, he has worked with Nanni Moretti, Mario Monicelli, Roberto Andò, Roberto Faenza and others. He has won numerous career and civic engagement awards, including the "Seal for Peace" from the City of Florence, and in 2009 the De Sica Award for Theatre.

With a background in economics and lengthy experience with BNL (Banca Nazionale del Lavoro), he has been working in real estate finance for over 30 years. Expert in corporate governance in regulated environments, strategic-financial planning and control, a staunch supporter of sustainability as an essential lever for generating business value. Some of his most important experiences include managing the corporate start-up and business development of Sorgente up to 2015, where he’s overseen relevant acquisitions such as the Chrysler Building and Flatiron in New York. Since 2017 he’s been NEXT RE SIIQ’s Chief Executive Officer

In January 2021, he became Business Strategy & Development Senior Advisor to Sicuritalia SpA, Italy’s leading security company. He is also Chairman of the Board of Sicuritalia Multiservice, and Business Strategy and Development Advisor to KONI. Over the years, his assignments have brought consolidated managerial and representative experience in various areas of the Facility Management industry. In 2022, he became Vice President of the ONBSI bilateral organization; he became Vice Chairman of the ASIM health care fund in 2017.

Expert in decarbonization strategies, energy efficiency, distributed generation, the circular economy, and international energy markets. ESCo and EPC formula projects. Auxiliary process efficiency enhancement. Experienced in strategic consulting to large industry and international groups, risk management, cost management and industrial competitiveness.