Francesco Maria Chelli has been President of Istat since 30 May 2024. Full Professor of Economic Statistics, he has held various positions, including Dean of the Faculty of Economics at the Marche Polytechnic University and Director of the Statistical Production Department at Istat. He is currently Honorary President of the Italian Society of Economics, Demography and Statistics.
Professore emerito after being professore ordinario of International Economics at Bocconi until 2009. Previously, he taught International Economics at the Faculty of Political Science of the Università Statale di Milano and Political Economy at the Faculty of Law of the Università di Modena.
Born in Carrara in 1985, Agnese Pini has been running La Nazione newspaper since August 2019. She was the first woman in the newspapers 160 year history to hold such a position. From July 2022 she was also appointed Director of the QN Quotidiano Nazionale, Il Resto del Carlino, La Nazione and Il Giorno.
Born in Milan, she holds a degree in Chemistry, was President of Federchimica and Assolombarda, Vice President for Research and Innovation in Confindustria. Great patron, she set up the Bracco Foundation in 2010, of which she is President.
Via Belenzani, once called Contrada Larga, is the main street leading to Piazza Duomo and one of the city's most atmospheric streets, surrounded on both sides by Renaissance palaces decorated with beautiful frescoes. Palazzo Geremia, today the seat of the Trento City Council, is one of these: inside there are several rooms - beautifully frescoed and often still with their original wooden ceilings.
