Euclid Network, Executive Director; ACEVO, Director of the International Leadership Development

Filippo Addarii is Executive Director of Euclid Network, the European network of third sector leaders and Director of the International Leadership Development at ACEVO – the British association of chief executives of voluntary organsiations. In these roles he has developed networks to empower civil society across Europe, Asia, Africa, US and Middle East.

He is member of the Citizenship Structured Dialogue Group of DG Education&Culture, European Commission, and member of intercultural dialogue working group set up in the same DG following the European year of intercultural dialogue 2008. He’s non-ex board member of the Gum Arabic Foundation (www.gumarabic.org). The foundation aims to establish a fair trade certification for Gum Arabic, the main natural commodity in Sudan, combining a for-profit investment fund (150m €) and a non-profit projects for local development. He’s also advisory board member of ASPEL – association for Professional&Executive Learning (www.aspel.org) and non-executive board member of the company Nethical srl (www.nethical.net) leader in R&D in new technologies for homecare and medical assistance.

Filippo gained a Philosophy Degree at the University of Bologna in 1998, a year after having been awarded the Leonardo scholarship for research at the University La Sorbonne Paris. In 2004 he completed a master’s degree in third sector organisation management at the University of Urbino (IT). He did the New Generation CEOs at Cass Business School (UK) the INSEAD Social Entrepreneurship Programme (France) and Strategic Management for Leaders of NGOs of Harvard University (US).

Prior to working at ACEVO, Filippo was project manager at Art for the World in Switzerland (1998 – 2001), which is a cultural association that promotes Human Rights through contemporary art exhibitions around the world in collaboration with the UN and the EU.

With the background experience gained in Switzerland, Filippo went on to envisage and found GlobaLab in 2001. GlobaLab is a culture-focused association which promotes global civil society development through innovative intercultural projects.

In 2003 he co-founded the magazine Ecologist Italy and the Research Centre of Contemporary Social Movements for the Feltrinelli Foundation. He is a regular commentator in VITA, the well-regarded Italian magazine for the third sector.