Francesco Profumo is a businessperson who has been at the head of 15 different companies and presently is Chairman for Panel 09, Chairman of Fondazione European School of Management Italia, President-Executive Board at Turin Euro-Latin American Forum, Member of IEEE Industry Applications Society, Chairman for Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo, Chairman for Italy Ministry of Education Universities & Research and Chairman of ESCP Business School Turin Campus.

He is also Chairman at Fondazione Bruno Kessler, President at ACRI Associazione di Fondazioni e di Casse di Risparmio SpA, Professor at Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, Professor at Politecnico di Torino, Member of Accademia delle Scienze di Torino, Member of Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Member of Academia Europaea Ltd and Member-Management Committee at Hysy Lab and on the board of 5 other companies.

In the past Mr. Profumo held the position of Chairman for Iren SpA, Chairman at Columbus Association, Chairman at Infrastrutture Wireless Italiane SpA, President of Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Chairman for Comitato di Indirizzo per la Valutazione della Ricerca, President of The National Research Council, Design Engineer at Hitachi Rail STS SpA and Member of IEEE Power Electronics Society.

He received an undergraduate degree from Politecnico di Torino.