Research Director at the Italian National Research Council (CNR-IRPPS) in Rome, and Professor of Innovation, Governance and Public Policy at the University of London, Birkbeck College. He works on the economics and policy of science, technology and innovation and on the political theory of international relations.
He has chaired the European Commission’s Expert Group on “A Wide Opening of the European Research Area to the World” and he has been a member of the Expert Group of the European Commission “Global Europe 2030/2050″.
In the field of innovation studies, he co-authored The Technological Specialization of Advanced Countries, prefaced by the then EC President Jacques Delors  (Kluwer, 1992) and co-edited with Bengt-Aake Lundval, The Globalizing Learning Economy (Oxford University Press, 2001). His latest co-authored book is Innovation and Economic Crisis. Lessons and Prospects from the Economic Downturn (Routledge, 2011). He is now co-editing, with Andrea Filippetti, The Handbook of Global Science, Technology and Innovation (Wiley, 2015).

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Associate Professor of Documentation at the Macerata University (1995- 2007) and the Lumsa University in Rome (1998-2008), Vice-president of the Italian Association for Advanced Documentation (1998-2004) and Italian delegate in the European Council of Information Associations (ECIA) (1997-2004). Carla Basili is co-ordinator and initiator (since 2001) of the European Network on Information Literacy (EnIL) and of the European Observatory on Information Literacy Policies and Research (since 2006). Since 2009, Carla Basili is the scientific responsible of the research project Information Policies in Science: Knowledge Sharing and Transfer in Scholarly Disciplines. Her research interests focus on Scientific Information, Scientific Information Policies and Information Literacy. Selected authored books: La biblioteca in rete: strategie e servizi nella Società dell’Informazione (1998), La biblioteca virtuale: accesso a risorse informative in rete (1994) (with C. Pettenati). Selected edited books: Information literacy in Europe. A first insight into the state of the art of information literacy in the European Union (2003), Information Literacy at the crossroad of Education and Information Policies in Europe (2008), The Observatory on Information Literacy Policies and Research in Europe (2009) and Sinergie invisibili. Ricerca e Informazione Scientifica nell’Economia della Conoscenza (2010).

Is Professor of Science and Technology in Society at the University of Trento, Italy and has been visiting professor in several academic and research institutions in Asia, Europe and North America. His publications include Science in society (London and New York, Routledge, 2004), Handbook of Public Communication of Science and Technology (with B. Trench, London and New York, Routledge, 2008; new ed. 2014), Beyond Technocracy. Citizens, Politics, Technoscience (New York, Springer, 2009, published also in Chinese) and essays in journals such as Nature and Science. He has received several recognitions for his work, including the Mullins Prize awarded by the Society for Social Studies of Science (1997) and the Merck-Serono special jury award for science books (2007). He has served as advisor and evaluator for several research and policy bodies, including the US National Science Foundation, the Royal Society, and the Contract professor in several Universitiy among which: European Commission, and has chaired (with B. Trench) the programme of the XIIth world conference of Public Communication of Science and Technology (2012).

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(PhD in Physics) Researcher at IRPPS-CNR, he mainly works on participative methodologies in science-society relationships. He is project assistant for CNR of the European project REPOPA on the relations between science and politics in health; Work Package leader of the European project SciCafe 2.0 on the development of platforms for public participation in decisions involving scientific issues, responsible for CNR for the projects “Scienceonthenet” and “La scienza ha fatto rete” of the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research. He is responsible for the research subunit “Communication and knowledge inside the scientific community”, in which he studies the influence of the bibliometric evaluation on the processes and contents of scientific research. As a founder of the Science Café of Rome he participated to the European project SciCafe (FP7, Science in Society). He has been national coordinator of three projects for the dissemination of scientific culture of Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research. As a science communicator he wrote three books, he participated to TV programs and he organized many public events of science communication.

She is a social demographer, former director of research at CNR. Her main fields of research are: the impact of policies on gender equity; gender statistics and indicators; women and science. She has coordinated a number of national and international projects and was member of numerous EU expert groups on women in science. She was member of the ETAN Report working group, Italian EU Ambassador for equal opportunities in science, member of the Gender and Excellence EU experts’ group. She has set the guidelines of the first edition of She Figures, and organised various conferences and media events on Gender and Science. She wrote more than 180 articles, books and research reports on social policies and gender. She is currently Associate at the Institute for Population Research.

Senior Researcher at CERIS – CNR. She has been Principal investigator in several projects on: higher education governance, funding and research evaluation and STI indicators. From 2004 to 2009, she was Team Leader of CNR CERIS in Network of Excellence PRIME EUFP6, and Member of the Executive Committee of the Network. Presently she is member of three on-going EUFP7 projects, namely: POCARIM– Mapping population careers, mobilities and impacts of advanced research degree graduates in the social sciences and humanities, RISIS-Research Infrastructures for the Assessment of Science Technology and Innovation Policy Project, and IMPACT-EV-Evaluating the Impact and the Outcomes of European SSH Research. She is Vice-President of the European Forum for Studies on Policies for Research and Innovation-EU-SPRI, and Member of the executive board of the ENID European STI Indicators Conference Series. She published and served as referee in several international journals and books.

(PhD in Philosophy) has been Adjunct Professor at the Department of Philosophy, Sapienza-University of Rome, Research Fellow at Institute ISPF (The Italian National Research Council-CNR, Naples), and Fulbright Researcher (Dept. of Philosophy, Princeton, UN). The primary focus of her work lies on modern and contemporary moral and political philosophy. Author of several articles in refereed journals, she is often invited   as   key-note   speaker   in national and international Conferences. She is the editor of the Italian translation of (almost the complete) Shaftesbury’s Characteristicks (Shaftesbury. Scritti morali e politici, Utet 2007), and the author of two books: Dal cittadino del mondo al mondo dei cittadini. Saggio su Kant (Asterios, 2004), and Il cosmopolitismo contemporaneo (Laterza, 2011). An extended version of this latter book is to be published in English (Bloomsbury publishing, 2015).

Research Director at the National Research Council, Institute of Research on Population and Social Policies (IRPPS-CNR) and responsible for the CNR Research Unit “Science Communication and Education”, that involves 3 Institutes of the CNR and includes National and International projects in the fields of science and society, participation and science education, relationships between research and policy, epistemology of science and sociology of communication. Main Projects Responsibilities include CNR coordination of the Fp7 project Repopa, on the relationship between research results, evidence and policy making; the International Research Project “implicit values in textbooks”. representations of migration and Main memberships included membership, as National Expert of the “Information Society Forum”, WG2 “Social and democratic values, culture and the future of new services and the media”. Master “IEAT”, University Roma TRE, University of Macerata,, University Sapienza Roma, University Lumsa, Roma, IUN, University of Naples.