Massimo Lapucci is 2006 Yale World Fellow and Vice President of the Yale Club Italy.
He is Chair of Edulia, the largest Italian Edtech company of the Enciclopedia Treccani Group and CDP (the national state-owned investment bank) and Vice President of the Political School ‘Vivere nella Comunità’, profoundly non-partisan, founded to offer a political, economic and civic training to young talented people.
He is Scientific Director of the Master Program in ‘Strategic Development and Non-Profit Management’ born from the partnership between ‘Intesa Bank’ and the ‘Sole24Ore Business School’.
He has been CEO and Managing Director of OGR Torino, one of the largest transformations in Europe of a former industrial building into a Contemporary Art Center and in one of the main international hubs for innovation (15 international acceleration programs, mainly from the US including Techstars, Plug&Play, Google, Microsoft, IBM, about 130 startups accelerated each year and 300 mln euros raised).
Massimo has been Secretary General of ‘CRT Foundation’, third philanthropic foundation in Italy by assets under management with an endowment of about 3 billion euro and Secretary General of ‘Development and Growth Foundation’, focused on impact Investing, Innovation and Sustainability.
He has been Chair of the European Foundation Centre in Bruxelles, the network of institutional philanthropy, which unites over 300 members from nearly 40 countries, including the USA and Vice President of the Social Impact Agenda for Italy, connected to the international Global Social Impact Investment Steering Group (GSG).
He has extensive international experience as a board member for public and private companies and nonprofit organizations such as Rockefeller P.A Europe, the Robert Kennedy Foundation Italy, the advisory board of the London School of Economics – Marshall Institute.
He is also a member of the Scientific Board of the Institute for Scientific Interchange (ISI) for big data in Torino and New York City.
He is author and contributor of various books and on national and international media. Massimo is also co-editor of the best seller published by Springer on: “Data Science for Social Good. Philanthropy and Social Impact in a Complex World”.