<p>President of CECOP-CICOPA Europa the European Confederation of Industrial Cooperatives and Social Cooperatives, representing some 50,000 companies with more than 1.3 million workers in Europe, member of the Board in CICOPA and Cooperatives Europe.<br />Member of the EESC (European Economic and Social Commitee) since September 2010 has been dealing in particular with the social economy and social enterprises, employment and labor and finance for SMEs and social enterprises. On last December he has been spokesperson for the Social Economy category of the ESSC.<br />Since 2010 unti June 2018, he has been a national president of Confcooperative-Federsolidarietà  (association representing 6,200 social cooperatives, social enterprises in Italy).<br />He has been a social entrepreneur since 1988, when he started working as a base operator in a cooperative of social solidarity. He subsequently had executive roles in several cooperatives.<br />He has been an administrator in many social cooperatives and consortia and in a Cooperative Credit Bank. For 4 years he was a member of the Board of Directors of Banca Popolare di Bergamo of the UBI Group. He is a member of the board of the AICCON research Center of the University of Bologna.<br />From 2012 to 2015, he was chairman of the Entrepreneurial &amp; Territory Unit Committee, which brings together 10 small and medium-sized enterprise associations in the province of Bergamo. He is also a member of the Board of the Chamber of Commerce, Agriculture and Crafts Industry in Bergamo.</p>