Paolo Bertaccini Bonoli, Italy.
Founder and Chair, Sport4Impact Transnational Network
Co-Founder and CEO, For Impact Capital
Independent researcher and adviser for applied research and policy making.
Founder of Territoria House, an independent center for applied social sciences, public private partnerships (PPPs) and impact programs, operating in strict cooperation with universities, institutes for advanced studies and finance operators. Co-Founder with Mario Carlo Ferrario of For Impact Capital Investment Company.
Advisor and consultant to private companies and public institutions. Social scientist with a degree in Contemporary History at the University of Pavia and a background on epistemology. He has specialized in local development and marketing of territories, promotion of communities, the social role of sport, serious crime prevention and countering. Former athlete.
Expert in integrity and crime prevention. Advisor to Italian MFA for sport integrity, including G20 2021 Italian Presidency on Sport Integrity. Consultant to UNODC on sport and organized crimes issues, co-author of the Global Study on Sport and Corruption. Former Co-Chair of UNESCO Kazan Action Plan Action III on Sport Integrity. Former Advisor to the Italian Ministry for Sport on sport integrity matters, match-fixing and corruption, being delegated member to the European Commission Expert Group on Sport Integrity: since 2014 he has supported the international networking, the designing of policies and the coordination of intervention programs. Special relevance has had the project “Anti-Match-Fixing Formula” co-funded by EC DG HOME, which has established a protected reporting system for sports, in cooperation with the High School ASAG of Catholic University. In this framework he has organized the 2014 Milan EU Seminar “Match-fixing: a key issue for sports integrity” under the Italian Presidency of the European Council. Within Italian MFA activities has supported the co-tabling, co-sponsoring and negotiation of UNCAC Resolutions 7/8 and 8/4 on sport and corruption at COSP7 in Vienna in 2017 and COSP8 in Abu Dhabi in 2019. In the field of sport integrity he has also designed and implemented for the Municipality of Milan a Code of Conduct for Grass-Roots Sports, led workshops in international conferences such as IACC in Brasilia 2012, contributed to the UNODC Resource Guide for Investigations in match-fixing, coordinated in Italy the European projects “Stop Match-Fixing”, AMATT, TPREG, DRAWS and SbS4MED since 2013 till 2021. Author of Chapter 6 of 2021 UNODC Global Report on Corruption in Sport: https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/safeguardingsport/grcs/section-6.html
Creator and director of Giorgio Ambrosoli Award: www.premiogiorgioambrosoli.it
Creator and director of independent Institute for Policies and Research IIISSS www.iiisss.it, organizer of CoE Rome Conference in 2021 http://integrityinsport-roma2021.it
IIISSS promotes the Sport4Impact International International Network: https://sport4impact.net