ABOUT US
President
Claudio Zampa
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.
Board Member
Lorenzo Codogno
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.
Board Member
Ginevra Ventimiglia Agliardi
Ginevra Ventimiglia Agliardi is the Managing Director of Galleria Canesso – Old Master Paintings in Lugano, Switzerland and Milan.
She is a Swiss Italian art historian with a specialization in photography of art works.
Over the course of her career she had several collaborations with the Office of Cultural Heritage of Canton Ticino, the Society of Swiss Art History, the Italian National Trust and FAI Swiss.
Ventimiglia Agliardi graduated with honours from the University of Milan with a degree in Modern Literature and Art History. She specialized in Photography at the Bauer Institute in Milan, Italy.
She currently lives in Switzerland with her husband and children.
Advisor
Tom Perrin
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.