Gian Luca Comandini

Director The Blockchain Management School

Class of 1990. Classical high school, degree in economics.

In 2013 he was among the first in Italy to invest in two little-explored trends: blockchain and social media. Today he is one of Italy’s leading technology popularizers, founded the consulting and development company Acta Fintech, is editor of Cointelegraph Italia and director of the first training school in the sector: The Blockchain Management School.

He is a member of the government task force of experts chosen by the Ministry of Economic Development to outline the national blockchain strategy. He is the founder and CEO of You & Web, one of Italy’s best-known integrated communications companies specialising in viral strategies, with which he handles communications for numerous public figures, television programmes, brands and multinationals.

He is professor with chair in Blockchain at the Guglielmo Marconi University, professor in Blockchain and Cyber Security at the University of Macerata and has been teaching Web and Social Media Marketing at the Sapienza University of Rome for many years. He has been a speaker at several TEDx, and is a frequent columnist for everything related to innovation at the most important industry conferences and on many television programmes.

In 2019 he was included by Forbes in the famous list of the Under30 most influential leaders of the future and by Millionaire among the 15 young Italians who will change the country. In 2019 he joined Mensa International, an association that gathers people with an IQ higher than 98% of the world’s population, having passed the admission test with an IQ higher than 133.

In 2020, he wrote ‘From Zero to the Moon’, his long-awaited book that became in a few days a Best Seller in the Economics category and the best-selling Italian book in the field.