Local Organizing Committee

PAOLO BONARI
Head of the Tourism Bureau of the Municipality of Siena, the first City of Art in Italy to be certified as a sustainable tourist destination based on GSTC standards. “Our daily commitment is to transform Siena into a modern tourist destination with well-organized services focused on environmental, cultural, and socio-economic sustainability.”

Veronika WOBBE
Employed by the Tourism Bureau of the Municipality of Siena, which promotes the tourism in the City of Siena and its surroundings through a combination of activities: destination development based on the GSTC criteria of sustainability, which aim to grow environmental, social, cultural and economic benefits for Siena’s sustainable tourism and its surrounding area. In this context Veronika collaborates with other public bodies and private touristic operators, and supports Siena’s european and towntwinning projects.

Mariapiera FORGIONE, Ananse Communication
Communication and events consultant for the Municipality of Siena. Degree in Communication Sciences. Marketing and communication consultant, project planning and fundraising specialist, she works with public administration, also for European projects, and non profit organizations.

Iuri BRUNI
Head of the Culture and Tourism Directorate of the Municipality of Siena

Daniela OCCHIONERO, Fine Life
Founder of FINE LIFE, a DMC and Tour Operator that provides tailor-made travel design and MICE services. After graduating in Law, she spent 8 years in China working in Communication and Hospitality. Once back in Siena, 12 years ago, she decided to establish FINE LIFE with a local partner to combine an international approach to a deep knowledge of the Region.

Fernando NARDI, University of Rome Tor Vergata
Fernando Nardi, hydraulic engineer and hydrologist, is associate professor at the Department of Civil Engineering and Computer Science of University of Rome Tor Vergata. He is visiting professor at the Institute of Environment of Florida International University (FIU) and member of the FIU UNESCO Chair on Sustainable Water Security in Miami. Dr. Nardi is a water engineering expert with relevant experience in the coordination and execution of EU and international research and innovation programs fostering climate change adaptation, disaster risk reduction and resilient urban planning. His major academic publishing and technology transfer achievements relate to hydro-meteo risk, floods and droughts, numerical data and models, geospatial and earth observation intelligence, nature based solutions, NATCAT models for insurance and real estate risk mitigation. Prof. Nardi most recent efforts focus on transdisciplinary projects fostering synergies of engineering and earth sciences with social sciences and humanities. His work is aiming to engineer quantitative citizen-centered technological, policy and behavioural change valuing stakeholder engagement, citizen science, Water Energy Food Ecosystem (WEFE) Nexus approaches.