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Bruno Giussani
Bruno Giussani is a Swiss writer and author, a 2004 Knight Fellow at Stanford University and an Affiliated Fellow at the Stanford Institute for International Studies. He lives between Switzerland and California.
Bruno is a contributor to several newspapers, magazines and websites in Europe and in the United States. Most recently, his work has appeared in, among others, L’Hebdo, Weltwoche, Time, the Wall Street Journal Europe, the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, TheFeature, Corriere del Ticino and the Sunday paper Il Caffé.
His most recent book is “Storia di @” (2003), a ten-part examination of the cultural ramifications of the Internet.
A recognized specialist on the social impacts of technological innovation and on emerging socio-political trends, Bruno is a frequently-requested speaker and a regular lecturer at universities. He favours a pragmatic, no-hype approach. According to the International Herald Tribune, in his book "Roam, Making Sense of the Wireless Internet" (2001) he "first bursts the bubble of mobile hype and then explains why wireless communications really matters and how it works".
He is also Vice-Chairman of the Board of Tinext, a software company that he co-founded, and of Namics, a Swiss web consultancy.
The intersections of politics, economy, and technological innovation have kept Bruno busy for almost twenty years. He has been an observer and analyst as the European Internet Columnist for The New York Times; European Editor of the Industry Standard weekly magazine and founder of its European edition; Editor, US correspondent and columnist for L’Hebdo and a contributor to numerous other publications; Executive Producer of the Global Internet Summit. He has also co-founded two software companies, Tinet and Tinext; was the Director of Internet strategy at the World Economic Forum; and was the Director of Innovation of 3G Mobile, a Swiss wireless company.
Bruno co-developed and launched in the first Swiss online news site and, for his articles on information technology, received the Swiss Media Award in 1995.
He was the editor of the site 'Switzerland and the Holocaust Assets' independently covering the controversy about the actions of Switzerland and other countries during and after Second World War.
He is a member of the advisory committee of Transitions Online, a Prague-based independent news organization covering 28 countries in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet regions and is an advisor to Netaid, a New-York based organization fighting poverty in the developing world.
He is an alumnus of the University of Geneva.
