Speaker Daniele COLOMBO

After his degree in Economics, Daniele Colombo started working for the innovation agency of the Chamber of Commerce of Milan. In 2008-12 he has been Seconded National Expert in DG GROW and started working on bioeconomy issues. He is a member of the EC Expert Group on Bio-based Materials, of the European Working Group on Renewable Raw Materials and has been President of the Lombardy Green Chemistry Cluster between 2013-16. He is now Technical Coordinator of the Bioeconomy Pilot of the Vanguard Initiative.

The Vanguard Initiative is an innovative strategy developed by 30 European regions who committed to use their smart specialisation strategies to boost new growth through bottom-up entrepreneurial innovation and industrial renewal in European priority areas, such as advanced manufacturing, nano technologies and the bioeconomy.