The Zampa Foundation
The Zampa Foundation is a charitable organisation based in Switzerland, founded by Claudio Zampa, an Italian-born investor. The Foundation is committed to investing in projects that support its values of integrity and service, equality of opportunity and social mobility. It also works to promote the protection of key human rights, including freedom of speech, and the advancement of democracy.
Values
The Foundation is committed to:
The idea of service and ‘giving back’: the Foundation believes that education should promote high standards of personal integrity and autonomy in individuals, rooted in the importance of supporting those less privileged.
Equality of academic and cultural opportunity and social mobility. The Foundation believes that a healthy society should enable equality of opportunity and subsequent social mobility, particularly within educational institutions and through access to classical music for educational growth and opportunity.
Democratic leadership and values, political participation, transparency and civic engagement, as essential features of just and resilient societies and the protection of fundamental human rights, in particular freedom of the individual. The Foundation believes that social progress depends on respect for such human rights and that this their protection and promotion can be achieved by ensuring that laws, policies and practices that represent the freely expressed will of the people are upheld.
The ideas of free thought, free debate and liberal education: to lateral thinking and challenging assumptions and ideas. The Foundation believes that curiosity and free thinking should be encouraged in schools, universities and workplaces.
Mission
Our mission is to facilitate and support projects that promote action and research to:
Identify and advance potential and ability among the underprivileged,
including through scholarships, mentoring schemes and opening access to extra curricular activities.
Raise awareness of the importance of social and economic mobility to a healthy and developed society and promote research into the relationship between education and social mobility and into different educational methods.
Promote awareness of the importance of and teach the skills required for freedom of expression and speech as a basic human right and promote support of other human rights and recognition of where they may be violated.
Projects
- Drawing on Claudio Zampa’s experience as an investor, the Zampa Foundation is committed to evidence-based, transparent, results-driven and accountable charitable support.
- All projects supported by the Zampa Foundation are carefully assessed against the values and mission of the foundation.
- Support for all projects is given through structured, time-limited plans. In this way the foundation aims to have maximum impact in its chosen areas of interest.
About us
Claudio Zampa
President
Claudio Virgilio Zampa is the founder and CIO of Mangart Capital, a hedge fund specializing in macro-investments since 2000. He started his career in finance in 1987 in investment banking in Milan before joining Bank of America in London, where he served as Head of Euro Interest Rate Trading and Proprietary Group. He holds a degree in Finance from Bocconi University in Milano, Italy.
Originally from Friuli, a region in northeastern Italy with a long tradition of resilience and hard work, Claudio’s upbringing instilled in him a deep appreciation for integrity, discipline, and education.
Throughout his career, Claudio has been a strong advocate for the transformative power of education. His own academic journey and international experience have reinforced his belief in the importance of learning environments that foster intellectual and personal growth. This passion for education is reflected in his role as Chairman of Il Villaggio della Musica, a foundation dedicated to supporting young musicians by providing them with an inspiring place to study and develop their talent, as well as his strong support for educational scholarships.
Claudio is the father of seven children and lives in Switzerland with his family.
Lorenzo Codogno
Board Member
Lorenzo Codogno is the founder and chief economist of his consulting vehicle, Lorenzo Codogno Macro Advisors Ltd, and Visiting Professor in Practice at the European Institute of the London School of Economics.
Between May 2006 and February 2015, he was chief economist and director general at the Treasury Department of the Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance in charge of the economic analysis and planning directorate, with responsibility for macroeconomic forecasts, analysis on the Italian/international economy and domestic/international monetary and financial issues.
Throughout this period, he was also head of the Italian delegation at the Economic Policy Committee of the European Union, which he chaired from January 2010 to December 2011, thus attending Ecofin/Eurogroup meetings with Ministers. At the OECD, he headed the Italian delegation at the Economic Policy Committee, the Economic and Development Review Committee and the Working Party 1, which he chaired from Jan 2013 to Feb 2015.
He joined the Ministry from Bank of America, where he was managing director, senior economist, and co-head of European Economics based in London over the previous eleven years.
Before that, he worked in the research department of Unicredit. He studied at the University of Padua in Italy and had a Master Degree from Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York.
Tom Perrin
Board Member
Tom Perrin grew up in Cheshire, England and was educated at The Manchester Grammar School and Christ Church, Oxford, where he read History and Politics as an undergraduate. Since 2015 he has worked in education as a professional tutor with Keystone Tutors in London.
He has also worked on a number of pro-bono education projects focused on social mobility and widening access to high-quality education, particularly for the most able.
He is a publisher of narrative non-fiction, history, biography and literary fiction as the founder of a boutique publishing house in London, Zuleika, and as an editorial consultant to Hodder & Stoughton in the Hachette Livre group.
He lives between London and Cheshire.
Virginia Rita Zampa
Board Member
Virginia Rita Zampa was born and raised in Milan. After completing her classical studies, she studied Philosophy (for bachelor’s and master’s degrees) at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan, where she wrote her thesis on the future of politics in the age of digital democracy.
Subsequently, she studied Cultural Heritage and Activities Management at Università Ca’ Foscari in Venice and ESCP Business School in Paris.
She lives in Venice and works in the contemporary non-fiction editorial department of a publishing house.
Contact
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to discuss potential collaborations please email us
Address
C/O Lenz & Staehelin
Route de Chêne 30,
CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland
Registre Du Commerce
De Genève
No. Réf. 03143/2018
IDE CHE-233.348.907