Team > Giovanni Birindelli, President
Giovanni Birindelli, President (Italian, 1971) Giovanni graduated in Economics at La Sapienza university of Rome. He then worked, in chronological order: for Commerzbank Securities, an investment bank (London, UK), as analyst in its structured finance department; for Lynkeus Srl, a small strategic consultancy (Rome, Italy), where he was responsible for the socio-economic division and had project management responsibilities in research projects including various organizations, such as the World Bank, Siemens, Gaslini Foundation, CERN and others; as an independent consultant for two years, during which, in a parallel way, he intensified his independent studies of classical liberalism and wrote two film scripts in the attempt to convey some of the key points of the latter via fiction. In this period he also drafted the first version of the idea of political theory on which he is now writing a book. In 2008 Giovanni completed succesfully a MSc in Philosophy of the Social Sciences at the London School of Economics, LSE (London, UK) with the aim of testing his original idea by discussing it with selected scholars: this is a self-correcting strategy approach, based on the values of classical liberalism, designed to start moving spontaneously, and within the current institutional and legal framework of most non-common-law countries (in particular, Italy), in the direction of Hayek's constitutional proposal. The idea passed the test and immediately after his graduation Giovanni started writing his book, the first draft of which is now completed and is being revised. 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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