Bruno Giussani: Biography
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Bruno Giussani is a writer and commentator, the European Director of the TED Conferences and the Special Project Editor at L'Hebdo/Ringier. His blog is here. He lives in Switzerland.
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, BusinessWeek, The Economist, L'Hebdo, Weltwoche, the International Herald Tribune, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal Europe, Foreign Policy, the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, InfoWeek, Il Sole-24Ore Nòva and the Sunday paper Il Caffé. His blog Lunch over IP won the national "Golden Mouse 2006" award for the best Swiss themeblog. He is also a guest blogger on the TEDblog and on The Huffington Post.
Articles on Technology and Economy
Articles on Politics and Society
BLOG: Lunch over IP
He has produced the Global Internet Summit (Barcelona 2000), TEDGLOBAL (Oxford 2005), Forum des 100 (Geneva 2005, Lausanne 2006, 2007 and 2008) and other conferences and is a member of the advisory boards of LIFT (Geneva) and Picnic (Amsterdam).
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".
What the press says about "Roam"
His most recent book is "Storia di @" (2003), a ten-parts examination of the cultural ramifications of the Internet.
He is also Vice-Chairman of the Board of Tinext, a software company which he co-founded, and a member of the Board of Visitors of the Knight Fellwoship at Stanford University. From 2002 to 2008 he was a member of the Board of Namics, the largest 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. 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.
Archive of Bruno's New York Times columns
Bruno co-developed and launched in September 1995 the first Swiss online news site, and for his articles on information technology received the Swiss Media Award in 1995.
He has been 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 an advisor to Netaid, a New-York based organization fighting poverty in the developing world.
He is an alumnus of the University of Geneva, a 2004 Knight Fellow at Stanford University and an Affiliated Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford.
Read about Bruno (in various languages):
Reviews of "Roam", interviews and other articles.
Recensioni di "Senza Fili", interviste e altri articoli.
Recensioni di "Storia di @", interviste e altri articoli.
"In 15 Jahren wird Hochdeutsch in der Schweiz Nebensache sein".
Bruno Giussani über Englisch als Landessprache, schweizerische Tugenden und die Zukunft von UMTS. Von Fred David, "Cash" (12. April 2002).
Internet-Guru.
Aus der Serie "Siamo Ticinesi: Jung, unverbraucht und voller Ideen: Tessinerinnen und Tessiner auf dem Sprung nach oben". Von Daniel Weber, NZZ Folio (5. März 2001)
The Guru.
A profile of Bruno from the NowEurope newsletter. By Steven Carlson, NowEurope (December 20, 2000)
"La spiritualità non nasce dal rapporto uomo-macchina".
Il rapporto Internet-religione nell'opinione di un esperto. Di Carlo Silini, Corriere del Ticino (7 settembre 1998)
Mister EuroBytes' Personal Web Site.
A site review and profile from "Newsies on the Net". By Tom Mangan, Editor & Publisher Interactive (22 May 1998)
Un giornalista nella rete.
Corrispondente dall'Europa per l'edizione elettronica del "New York Times", Bruno Giussani ci parla di Internet e dei suoi sviluppi. Di Maria Pirisi, Cooperazione (30 luglio 1997)
Quel a été le rôle de l'Internet dans l'affaire des fonds juifs?.
Bruno Giussani a ouvert hier sur le réseau mondial une nouvelle page qui répertorie toutes les informations relatives à la crise identitaire que traverse le pays. Entretien. Par Pierre Grosjean, Le Nouveau Quotidien (24 juin 1997)
Der Prophet im eigenen Laden.
"Webdo"-Pionier Bruno Giussani über Internet-Auftritte. Von Christoph Büchi, Die Werbewoche (25. April 1997)
I luoghi fluidi e la Gorgone.
Cyberborgo -- Sguardo critico sul libro "Internet. Le nouvel outil" di Bruno Giussani. Di Lorenzo De Carli, Azione (27 febbraio 1997)
"Le Net ne supplantera pas l'imprimé".
Interview de Bruno Giussani. Par Laurent Mauriac, Libération (29 mars 1996)
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