Fabiola Gianotti

Fabiola Gianotti   ( physicist,  academic administrator)
Born	29 October 1960  Rome,  Italy
Nationality	Italian
Alma mater	University of Milan
Member of	Aspen Institute Italia, WEF/Board of Trustees
Interests	Particle physics
Attended the 2017 Bilderberg as CERN director general  CERN/Director-General  In office 1 January 2016 - December 2025 Selected for an unprecedented second term as DG, to run until 2025

Fabiola Gianotti is an Italian physicist and administrator. On 1 January 2016 Fabiola Gianotti was made CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) Director-General, where she has pushed for ever larger and more expensive "colliders". She attended the 2017 Bilderberg meeting.

Education

Gianotti received her doctorate in particle physics from the University of Milan and was at CERN from 1987.

Career

From 2009 to 2013, she succeeded Peter Jenni as spokesperson for the ATLAS collaboration at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

On January 1, 2016, she took over the post of Director General of CERN from Rolf Heuer. In 2019, she was appointed by the CERN Council for a further term of office from 1 January 2021. This is the first time in the history of CERN that a Director General has been appointed to a full second term.

Gianotti is also a member of the advisory committee of several research institutions such as Fermilab and DESY and is a member of the scientific advisory board of the UN Secretary-General.

Honors and awards

In 2012, she was one of the laureates of the Special Fundamental Physics Prize for the probable discovery of the Higgs boson. Also in 2012 she received the Gold Medal of the City of Milan and in 2013 the Premio Enrico Fermi of the Italian Physical Society and the Medal of Honor of the Niels Bohr Institute. In 2009 she was awarded the title of Commendatore by the President of Italy and in 2012 the Order of Merit of the Republic of Italy. She is a corresponding member of the Accademia dei Lincei. She holds honorary doctorates from Uppsala, Oslo, McGill University and EPFL in Lausanne. In 2013 she was awarded an honorary professorship at the University of Edinburgh. In 2015 she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences and as an honorary member of the Royal Irish Academy, in 2016 to the Académie des Sciences and the Academia Europaea, in 2018 to the Royal Society, in 2019 to the American Philosophical Society (APS) and the Russian Academy of Sciences. In 2017 she received the Wilhelm Exner Medal, in 2018 the Magellanic Premium of the APS. In September 2020, she was appointed a full member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences by Pope Francis.

 

Events Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Bilderberg/2017	1 June 2017	4 June 2017	US Virginia Chantilly	The 65th Bilderberg Meeting
WEF/Annual Meeting/2016	20 January 2016	23 January 2016	Switzerland WEF	Attended by over 2500 people, both leaders and followers, who were explained how the Fourth Industrial Revolution would changed everything, including being a "revolution of values".
WEF/Annual Meeting/2017	17 January 2017	20 January 2017	Switzerland WEF	2952 known participants, including prominently Bill Gates. "Offers a platform for the most effective and engaged leaders to achieve common goals for greater societal leadership."
WEF/Annual Meeting/2018	23 January 2018	26 January 2018	Switzerland WEF	~2200 of the super-rich meet to talk about "Creating a Shared Future in a Fractured World"
WEF/Annual Meeting/2019	22 January 2019	25 January 2019	Switzerland WEF	"The reality is that we are in a Cold War [against China] that threatens to turn into a hot one."
WEF/Annual Meeting/2022	22 May 2022	26 May 2022	Switzerland WEF	1911 guests in Davos
WEF/Annual Meeting/2023	16 January 2023	20 January 2023	Switzerland WEF	The theme of the meeting was "Cooperation in a Fragmented World"

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