(Milan 1958) teacher and multimedia programmer, member of Amnesty International (AI) since 1987; since 1990 Italian chapter coordinator for China (Tibet), Myanmar and Vietnam. Since 2003 executive committee member of AI Italian chapter, committee president since 2005. Author of numerous articles on human rights violations and of forwards to texts on these topics; collaborated with Piero Verni on the CD-ROM entitled Tibet; worked on microcredit projects in Afghanistan.