Mario Cucinella is the founder and creative Director of MC A - Mario Cucinella Architects, an international design studio, based in Bologna and Milan, specializing in research-based architectural design linked to sustainability issues according to a holistic approach.

The impact and importance of his work, both from an environmental and social point of view, as an architect and educator has been recognized with the Honorary Fellowship of the American Institute of Architects (2017) and with the International Fellowship of the Royal Institute of British Architects (2016).

Anna Roscio is born in Turin, where she graduated in Economics in 1989. She started to work as an auditor for Coopers &Lybrand. After this experience and an MBA, she arrived in 1991 in what was at the time called Istituto Bancario Sanpaolo di Torino.