People in Fondazione

Fondazione brings together the skills and passions of many people who participate in promoting the right to quality education.

Board of Directors

The Board of Directors shall be assigned all the powers of ordinary and extraordinary management of the Foundation. Currently, the Board of Directors consists of:

Francesco Profumo

President of Fondazione Reggio Children

Elena Bertolini

Managing Director of the Cooperativa Sociale Accento

Annamaria Contini

Director DESU Dipartimento Educazione e Scienze Umane at UNIMORE

Harold Valdemar Göthson

Senior Consultant of REI (Reggio Emilia Institutet)

Vanessa Roghi

Historian and author of history programmes for Rai Tre, Bodini Fellow at the Italian Academy of Columbia University (2020-2021)

Giuseppe Zizzo

Head of Medical Operations - Diaverum Italia

Honorary President

The Mayor of the Municipality of Reggio Emilia may appoint an Honorary President of the Foundation, who serves as the institutional representative of the Foundation, as per article 18 bis of the Bylaws. In December 2024, was appointed Honorary President:

Carla Rinaldi (1947-2025)

Honorary President of Fondazione Reggio Children – Centro Loris Malaguzzi

Scientific Committee

The Foundation can rely on the aid of a multidisciplinary Scientific Committee of international significance, which provides advice and guidance on institutional activities. The Scientific Committee is composed of:

Jerome Bruner

University of New York (passed away in 2016)

Gunilla Dahlberg

Stockholm University

Howard Gardner

Harvard University

James Heckman

University of Chicago, Nobel Prize

Peter Moss

University College London

Mitchel Resnick

MIT Media Lab in Boston

Lester-Irabinna Rigney

University of South Australia

Paola Cagliari

Pedagogista and Director of Preschools and Infant-toddler Centres – Istituzione of the Municipality of Reggio Emilia (2010-2019)

Graziano Delrio

Senator of the Italian Parliament

Carlo Feltrinelli

G. Feltrinelli Foundation

Susanna Mantovani

University of Milano Bicocca

Remo Italo Portioli

Italian Society of Internal Medicine

Ambassadors

The Ambassadors of Fondazione Reggio Children are influential people, appointed by the Board of Directors, on the basis of their affinity with Fondazione in terms of ideas, history and values. Ambassador of Fondazione:

James M. Bradburne

Former General Director of Pinacoteca di Brera

Jay Wilson Weatherill

Chief Executive of Thrive by Five, a Minderoo Foundation’s initiative

Staff

The staff of Fondazione Reggio Children is characterized by multidisciplinarity: pedagogistas, atelieristas, architects, educators, researchers, project managers who share a broad and participatory vision on knowledge and human beings.