Born in 1945. Engineering degree at Pisa University in 1969. 
 
Present engagements:

• He is a research associate of the Italian National Research Council (CNR) allocated in the Institute for Informatics and Telematics in Pisa. 
• As delegate for Italy in the Governmental Advisory Committee of ICANN, he is the senior member of that committee; he is also member of the Security and Stability Advisory Committee of ICANN. 
• He is President of the Italian chapter of the Internet society. ISOC Italy has been instrumental in the activation of IGF Italy that held recently his fourth edition.
• He is member for Italy in the High Level Internet Governance group of the European Commission.

Some past engagements:

• He has been director of the CNUCE - CNR (an institute dedicated to research and development of advanced services on information science and networking) from 83 through 96. 
• He has been one of the pioneer for the introduction of the Internet in Italy; the first permanent link to ARPAnet was established between CNUCE and US-Virginia in 1986.
• He has been administator the ccTLD “.it” since its inception in 1987, until 1999. After that date he supported the Italian registry for the international relations and as a member of the policy council until 2010.
• He brought the CNUCE Institute among the founders of the Internet Society (ISOC) in 1992.
• He acted as President of TERENA (Trans European Research and Education Networking Association) from 95 through 99. During this period he favoured the accomplishment of the spin off phase of RIPE/NCC acting under TERENA umbrella.
• In the year 2000 he acted as cheaf consultant of US administration for a redelegation study of the Palestinian country code “.ps”.
• He is author of about a hundred publications and technical reports; he has been guest editor of the IEEE Proceedings Special Issue on “Evolution of Internet Technologies” published in September 2004.