Anna Ascani is the Undersecretary of State at the Italian Ministry of Economic Development, since 1st March 2021. She is responsible for telecommunications, industrial digital transition, ICT technologies and cooperatives, key elements of the Italian recovery. She has been a member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies since 2013 and she has served as Deputy Minister of Education between 2019 and 2021. After several years of political activity, she is currently the Vice-President of the Democratic Party (PD), where she has also been the coordinator of the Culture Department. She holds a Master’s degree in Philosophy from the University of Trento.

Carlo Nardello was born in Rome in 1964 and graduated in Economics from LUISS in 1988.

Carlo Nardello has a long and consolidated experience in consumer goods marketing and in the TV and ICT sector.

In January 2019 he joined TIM where he is currently Chief Strategy, Business Development & Transformation Officer of TIM Group.

Between 2016 and 2018, he was co-founder and CEO of CscVision, a media and marketing consultancy company, in May 2017 he become Chief of Staff of the Extraordinary Commissioners at Alitalia.

From 2000 to 2016 he held various top management positions at RAI. Previously, he worked at Lego Company, Walt Disney Company and Johnson & Johnson.

Carlo Nardello teaches Digital Marketing at the La Sapienza University of Rome and Media Economics at the LUMSA University of Rome. Previously he taught Marketing at UNISOB in Naples.

He is the author of several books on the television marketing and the digital market.

Antoaneta Angelova-Krasteva has been Director for Innovation, Digital Education and International Cooperation at DG EAC since 2016.  Her main activities relate to the areas of education, academic and business cooperation, research and innovation.

  Antoaneta joined the European Commission in 2008. She has occupied various positions across the European Commission and dealt with external relations and enlargement, internal security and police cooperation, cyber security, stakeholder relations and international affairs. Prior to entering the European Commission, Antoaneta worked as a Bulgarian diplomat in Brussels. She is a graduate in political science of Sofia University, with training and qualifications in European studies from Germany (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung) and the UK (Sussex University).

Borhene Chakroun is an engineer and has a PhD in Education Sciences from Bourgogne University in France. Borhene worked, during the 1990s, as trainer, chief trainer, project manager. He has also worked as short-term consultant for the EU, World Bank and other international organisations before coming to the European Training Foundation (ETF) in 2001. At the ETF, Borhene worked as Senior Human Capital Development specialist. He is now Director of Policies and Lifelong Learning Systems Division at UNESCO-HQ. Borhene conducted a range of policy reviews and skills systems diagnosis in different contexts. He has authored and co-authored various articles and books in the field of skills development and lifelong learning. Much of his most recent work focuses on global trends in reforming education and training systems and global agenda for skills development in the context of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda. He is also the coordinator of the Global Education Coalition launched by UNESCO to respond to the COVID-19 crisis.

Michael Vorländer is the Head of Unit for Education and Research at Germany’s Permanent Representation to the EU since January 2018. During the German Presidency of the Council of the EU from July to December 2020, he was the chair of the Research Working Party. In this function, he played a key role in the successful finalization of negotiations on the new EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation “Horizon Europe”. Prior to his assignment in Brussels, he worked as a senior adviser for education and research policy in the German Parliament (Deutscher Bundestag) for the CDU/CSU Parliamentary Group and as Head of Unit for EU Research Policy and the European Research Area at the Federal Ministry of Education and Research in Germany (BMBF). Other previous functions included a posting in Washington, D.C., as Counsellor for Science and Technology at the German Embassy and an assignment to the Federal Chancellery of Germany as a Policy Officer for Education and Research in Berlin. Before joining the German civil service, Michael Vorländer worked as a Public Prosecutor in Munich after having completed his law studies and practical legal training in Germany, Singapore, Norway and the United Kingdom.

Marc Durando, Executive Director of EUN, has over 35 years’ experience in the field of education and training, both at European and national level. He has worked in the education and training area since 1983, where, after five years in the field of continuing education for enterprises, he developed specific expertise on European cooperation in the field of education and training. Since September 2006, Marc Durando joined the European Schoolnet network as Executive Director of EUN.