Luca Bergamo has been the Secretary General of Culture Action Europe since March 2012. For the first ten years of his career, Luca was a specialist in artificial intelligence and IT. Since 1994 he switched his focus to people.
Along with Zone Attive, the company established by the city of Rome upon his proposal, Luca has conceived and driven some of Italy’s most revolutionary cultural initiatives. In 2004, he was appointed Director-General of the Glocal Forum, an international foundation promoting peace dialogue in post-conflict areas through local diplomacy and cultural cooperation.
In 2007 he was called to lead the launch of the Italian National Agency for Youth (ANG). Under his leadership, the ANG started a global initiative to support youth activism for sustainable development worldwide.
He built a coalition involving major United Nations agencies and over 1300 civil society organizations from 104 countries.