President of the Techint Group.
In the 1990s, he founded the Istituto Clinico Humanitas.
Since November 2014, he has been a member of the Board of Directors at the Luigi Bocconi University.
In July 2017, he became a member of the Board of Directors of the Leonardo da Vinci National Museum of Science and Technology Foundation.
Since June 2020, he has served as Special Advisor for Life Sciences at Confindustria.
From June 2013 to June 2017, he was President of Assolombarda.
From May 2004 to May 2012, he served as Vice President of Confindustria with responsibility for Education, and from June 2012 to June 2016, he was a member of the EIT Steering Committee.
At the international level, he is Vice President of the Aspen Institute and a member of its Executive Committee. He is also a member of the European Advisory Board of Harvard Business School and a member of the European Round Table of Industrialists (ERT). Engaged in social and charitable activities, he chairs the Rocca Foundation and the Fratelli Agostino and Enrico Rocca Foundation.
In 2007, he was appointed Cavaliere del Lavoro (Knight of Labor), and in 2009, he was awarded an honorary degree in Industrial Engineering from the Politecnico di Milano.
In 2010, he received the "Premio Leonardo 2009" (Leonardo Award 2009), and in 2018, he was named Commendatore (Commander of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic).
He graduated cum laude in Physics from the University of Milan and completed a PMD (Program for Management Development) at Harvard Business School in Boston.