Started his career oin late ‘90s as IT specialist between Italy, USA and India before managing EU co-funded R&D and Tech. Transf. (TT) initiatives representing public organizations (eg Italian Min. of Econ. Dev., Regional Innovation Agency, etc) and private entities focusing on interaction between Research and Industry. He designed, launched and directed the “Innovation and TT” Unit at ASI (Italian Space Agency) working on New Space Economy topics, namely start-ups, risk finance and IPR, before becoming Open Innovation advisor to the president and coordinator of the ASI OECD team. He founded the first Space Economy advisory firm in Italy working for regional governments, private companies and startups (USA, IT, Cyprus) and is currently member of the board of Global Entrepreneurship Network Space (USA), advisor of Polytechnic of Milan Space Economy observatory and Research Fellow at the Italian Institute of Technology. External expert at NQSTI National Quantum Science and Technology Institute and mentor in business acceleration programs like EU Cassini, EUSPA Space Academy and NATO DIANA complete Anil’s main assignments.