Team > Giovanni Birindelli, President
Giovanni Birindelli, President Giovanni graduated in Economics at La Sapienza university of Rome. He then worked a) for Commerzbank Securities (2001-2002), an investment bank (London, UK), as analyst in its structured finance department; b) for Lynkeus Srl (2002-2005), a consultancy specialized in policy advice (Rome, Italy), where he was responsible for the socio-economic division and project management in research projects including various organizations, such as the World Bank, Siemens, Gaslini Foundation, CERN and others; c) as an independent consultant (2005-2007). In 2008 Giovanni completed a MSc in Philosophy of the Social Sciences at the London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE (London, UK). In the same year, he started working on his book "La maggioranza che limita sé stessa" (The self-limiting majority), where he illustrates his vision of liberalism and critically discusses Hayek's constitutional proposal, individuating some limits of the latter and a possible way to overcome them. The book was completed in June 2010 and is now being edited for publishing. Alexander Wulf, Vice President Alexander Wulf got his undergraduate degree in Business Administration from SRH Hochschule Berlin (2006). His interest in the field of law and economics led him to enroll in the Master of Law and Business program at the Bucerius Law School and WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management (2007). His increasing interest in empirical legal studies motivated him to subsequently enroll in a second master program at the London School of Economics, the MSc in Social Research Methods (2008). Putting into practice his academic study of empirical research design and quantitative research methods he worked as a research assistant in an empirical legal studies project at the University of Oxford. In this project he supported the quantitative analysis of the legal institutions that govern international contracts (2008). Throughout his academics study and research work, he was engaged in different academic organizations. From 2007 to 2008 he served as the secretary of the London School of Economics Hayek Society. From 2007 onwards he served as the treasurer of the alumni association of Germany’s classical liberal scholarship organization, the Friedrich-Naumann-Foundation. He also got several scholarships and academic distinctions for his academic and social work, among others from the Friedrich-Naumann-Foundation and the Berlin Communication Forum. Oleksiy Kurka, Founding Member and Collaborator Oleksiy Kurka was born in Chernivtsi, Ukraine. He studied philosophy at the local university, completing three different projects, first on mythology, then on Russian and French personalism and finally on ontology of language. After graduation, he took up a lectureship in classical philology. A couple of years later he left his alma mater and moved to Kyiv. Here he worked in different positions: the ministry of education and science, universities and humanitarian NGOs. After he gathered this work experience, he decided to get back into academia. He enrolled in the MSc in Philosophy and Public Policy at the London School of Economics. His final thesis was about reprivatisation policy in the Commonwealth of Independent States. Currently he lives and works in Kyiv. Juan Diego Serrano, Founding Member and Collaborator Juan Diego Serrano was born and still live in Medellin, Colombia. He is 27 years old and got his undergraduate degree in Philosophy and Literature. His main interests are Astronomy, which has been his lifelong passion, and the History and Philosophy of Science, the field in which he has pursued and keeps pursuing his graduate studies.
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