Raffaele Mauro

Raffaele Mauro is a venture capital professional with a passion for technology, policy and global finance. He is currently Empedocle Maffia Fellow and MPA candidate at the Harvard Kennedy School, junior fellow at the Aspen Institute and member of executive committee at the Global Shapers Hub - Milano, a community created by the World Economic Forum. He is also advisor at OltreVenture, the leading Italian social venture capital fund, strategic advisor at the American Chamber of Commerce in Italy and member of the board at Plain Ink.

Previously, he was Senior Associate at Annapurna Ventures, a venture capital firm focused on early stage investments in web services, mobile applications and digital technology. In the past he worked at Bocconi University, Collegio di Milano, Harvard Business Review-Italian Edition and various branches of Confindustria, developing projects related to innovation, entrepreneurship and corporate finance.

Raffaele attended the Singularity University Graduate Studies Program at NASA Ames in 2011. He obtained a Ph.D at Bocconi University in 2009, with a dissertation on ICT business history, and graduated with honors in Economics.

He was selected to the McKinsey EuroAcademy, the Alma Graduate School BEST program, the Accade Domani competition and the Global Village Campus, where he won the Microsoft prize. Raffaele is a Mensa member and in 2010 he was selected as one of the national talents from the Italian Government at the Festival dei Talenti. He had research and study experiences at Peking University, NASA Ames research campus, Universidad de Cantabria and LSE.

Raffaele writes for Aspenia, the policy review of the Aspen Institute - Italy, and LIMES, the major Italian journal of geopolitics. He is co-founder of the social think tank “Lo Spazio della Politica” and became part of the “Young European Leaders – 40 under 40” cohort of 2011.