He is the President of Fondazione Patrizio Paoletti. He promotes individuals’ awareness as the key to overcoming current global crises. He has developed pedagogic models, methods, and evidence-based techniques to increase humans’ self-awareness. In his vision, sustainable development is only possible when we become aware of our inner functioning and acquire the capacity to model it. His “Sphere Model of Consciousness” is the result of two decades of neuroscientific research and it has been widely studied in the field of education. He is the creator of the interdisciplinary approach named “Pedagogy for the Third Millennium”. 

Tania Di Giuseppe is a psychologist and the director of the Department of Research and Didactics at Fondazione Patrizio Paoletti’s RINED institute. She is an expert in resilience, hope, and projects to help individuals and communities facing emergencies. She is head of the project Prefigurare il future (Envisioning the Future), a psycho-educational program targeted at sharing knowledge about human functioning to help individuals face stress, gain awareness, and acquire the ability to reprogram the future.

Tal Dotan Ben-Soussan, PhD is the director of RINED Research Institute for Neuroscience, Education and Didactics of the Patrizio Paoletti Foundation. Leading international studies examining the effects of different training paradigms on neuroplasticity and well-being, Ben-Soussan’s multidisciplinary approach utilises electrophysiological, neuroanatomical and molecular tools to examine the underlying mechanisms promoting cognitive and emotional well-being. Ben-Soussan's pioneering works on the Quadrato Motor Training have demonstrated that specifically-structured sensorimotor activity can improve neurobiological, emotional and cognitive functions. She is also applying her neuroscientific model to examine the interconnectedness of motion, emotion and cognition for increasing resilience and performance in the workplace, as well as in schools and neurodegenerative states.

Dr. Golnaz Tabibnia is a neuroscientist and an Assistant Research Psychologist in the Department of Psychological Science at the University of California, Irvine. She received her PhD in Psychology at UCLA and was an Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh for three years. Her research focuses on the interaction of emotion and cognition in the brain, including emotion regulation, impulse control, and resilience. She uses insights from neuroscience to explore novel cognitive or behavioral strategies for improving mental health and wellness.

Dr. Leshem is a senior lecturer and serves as Deputy Head of the Undergraduate Program of the Criminology Department at Bar-Ilan University (Israel). Her interdisciplinary academic credentials include M.A. and Ph.D studies in clinical criminology at Bar-Ilan University and Certificate studies in psychotherapy at Ben-Gurion University (Israel). Dr. Leshem completed her Postdoctoral training in the cognitive neuroscience lab at UCLA (USA) through funds from the International Outgoing Fellowships (IOF) – FPF-PEOPLE- Marie Curie Actions. Dr. Leshem has extensive clinical experience in emotional and behavioral problems among adolescents and research experience in the examination of impulsivity and related executive and cognitive functions including attention and language.

Dr. Vinca Bigo is an Associate Professor at KEDGE business school (Talence, France) since 2010. After a career in finance she acquires a PhD at Cambridge University in the UK. Her current research centres on embodied learning, the ethics of care, philosophy of science, leadership, silence, and liberated entrepreneurship. Her teaching commitments include Embodied Leadership, Liberated Entrepreneurship and Collective Intelligence. She is also a qualified yoga instructor and a specialist in vibrant food. She acts as executive coach to foster coherence between highly professional and deeply personal goals.

Sherry Hamby is Research Professor of Psychology at the University of the South and Director of the Life Paths Research Center (Tennessee, USA).  She is Founder and Co-chair of ResilienceCon. Dr. Hamby is an internationally recognized authority on trauma.  She has worked for more than 25 years on the problem of violence leading to the publication of more than 200 articles and books. Her awards include Outstanding Contributions from the American Psychological Association (APA).

Dr. D. Gaye Watson Warthe, PhD, MSW, RSW, is the Associate Dean, Teaching and Learning in the Faculty of Health, Community and Education at Mount Royal University in Calgary (Canada). In 2011 she developed the Dating Relationship Scales and she is co-investigator on a study exploring the disaster preparedness. Currently she is the principal investigator of a study about women’s shelters during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. In 2018, Dr. Warthe’s obtained an Innovation Award by Alberta Government and her anti-violence program (Stepping-up) received an Inspiration Award for leadership in family and community safety.

Cecilia Mwangi holds a PhD in Educational Psychology and is currently a lecturer in the Department of Educational Psychology, Kenyatta University (Kenya). Her main research interests are academic resilience and personality assessment. She has participated at many prestigious international conferences (e.g., the 26th International Conference on Teaching, Education and Learning) and she is a committee member of the Kenyatta University International Annual Conference on Education and Life-Long Learning. In May 2018, she researched at Mykolas Romeris University (MRU) in Vilnius (Lithuania).

Dr. Anthony Muriithi Ireri is a lecturer at the Department of Educational Psychology at Kenyatta University (KU), Kenya. He received his B.Ed (Arts), M.Ed., and PhD from KU. His research is focused on the measurement and prediction of students’ achievement. Anthony’s publications in resilience have mainly explored how it relates to students’ performance, personality, school characteristics, goal orientations. Anthony is a member of many scientific associations like the American Psychological Association and the Society for Emotion and Attachment Studies.

Aras Bozkurt is a researcher and faculty member in the Department of Distance Education, Open Education Faculty at Anadolu University, Turkey. He holds MA and PhD degrees in distance education. Dr. Bozkurt’s research focus is online learning. He examined resilience in higher education from the theoretical base of ecosystems view. His work supports a sustainable learning ecology where resilience is a resource involving learners, instructors, and institutions.

Kaltrina Kelmendi is Assistant Professor at the Pristina University. She belongs to the first generation of psychology students in Kosovo. In 2016 she earned a Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic. Her research focuses on domestic violence, child protection, school violence, school monitoring. She has been working on the issue of resilience in Kosovo and South-Eastern Europe as Fulbright Scholar.

Nandan Bhattacharya is Assistant Professor at the Jadavpur University (Calcutta, India). He is a theatre worker and he practices applied theatre in the following fields: on soft skill development and resilience in Higher Education and Secondary Studies, and  - with the Community Theatre Project - on Drop out Problem with primary level students. He works on the psychological and sociological problems in higher education in online mode education.

Giulia Perasso is a researcher at Fondazione Patrizio Paoletti working on preventative and intervention strategies to promote resilience. After research experience at the Centre for Abuse and Trauma Studies of the Middlesex University (London, UK) she earned her Ph.D in Psychology at the University of Pavia (Italy). She is a psychologist and teaches developmental psychology at the University of Genoa. Her main research interests are: childhood, adolescence, infant hospitalization, adolescents’ risk behavior, attachment and trauma.