Federico Vescovini serves as Chairman of the Nuova Global Foundation.

In his professional career Mr. Vescovini currently serves as GM of the Vescovini Group, Italy. Since 1996 he has served as director of several manufacturing plants of the group in Italy, Serbia, US, Taiwan and Japan.  

Since 2017 he is part of a workgroup that takes care about sustainability of Loppiano, the model citadel of the Focolare Movement nearby Florence, with more than 800 inhabitants from 50 different countries worldwide.

Mr. Vescovini has a degree in business administration and finances.

From 2021, she has assumed communication coordination responsibilities at the International Center of the Focolare Movement. Of Neapolitan descent, she received her diploma in film and television in Rome and has been active at the Focolare Movement’s Youth Center (from 1976 to 1987), as well as at the Medellín offices in Colombia and Quito in Ecuador (from 1990 to 2013). In these locations, she worked as an official translator and Italian teacher at the Pontifical Bolivarian University in Medellín and the Dante Alighieri Institute in Quito. Between 2018 and 2021, she worked as a journalist at the Communication Office of the Loppiano Citadel.

He is Argentinian-Italian and has studied Social Communication.

In 1984 he joined Ciudad Nueva Argentina in different roles. Since 1997 he has been the director of the entire editorial group. In 2021 he moved to Rome where he is part of the Communication team of the Focolare Movement.

Dori Rodríguez Fernández, from Spain, has a degree in Social Work with a Master’s in Immigration and Intercultural Education. 

She has worked for 20 years in the third sector, for several foundations, mainly in the area of education. She currently holds the position of Education Specialist in the Advocacy Area in a global organization working in 14 countries in advocating for children’s rights. He has been an executive of NGF since its inception.

Of Spanish descent, he studied industrial engineering.

In the past his career path has taken him through the roles of professor at Mexico’s Anahuac University, director of several real estate projects in Mexico and Argentina, and representative of the Ciudad Nueva publishing house in Mexico, Argentina, and Chile.

He currently serves as the commercial director of the Ciudad Nueva publishing house in Spain and co-responsible for the Focolare Movement in Spain.

Rev. Kyoichi Sugino is a global leader in interreligious dialogue and peace negotiations. He serves as President of Gakurin Seminary, the leading institute of learning at Risso Kosei-Kai, a global Buddhist faith and movement with presence throughout the world.

He served at the largest interfaith organisation Religions for Peace (RfP) New York International Secretariat since 1999 and was appointed as Deputy Secretary General in 2011 at the International Executive Committee meeting in Marrakesh, Morocco.
Rev. Sugino has been directly engaged in multi-religious diplomacy and track-II negotiations in Iraq, Syria, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, and other conflict zones (“Peace on Earth: An interview with Rev. Kyoichi Sugino” by THE CONSULUS.)

As an engaged Buddhist leader, he has worked with senior-most leaders across various streams and co-authored a historic Yogyakarta Statement on Shared Values and Commitments (Huffington Post, “Buddhist, Muslim Leaders Push for Peace in Conflict Areas”) to overcome violent extremism and advance common action for peace.

Réka Szemerkényi is a Senior Fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA). Between 2017 and 2020, she served as CEPA’s Executive Vice President. From 2015 to 2017, she was Ambassador of Hungary to the United States. Prior to this, she held various senior government positions: she was chief advisor in foreign and security policy to the prime minister and was senior advisor in the Ministry of Defense in Hungary. She held various business positions, such as head of international public affairs at MOL Group, the Hungarian oil and gas company, and Consultant at the Word Bank.

She held several academic positions, such as lecturer at Milan University’s ASERI Center of International Relations in Italy, Karoli University and the Catholic University Pazmany in Budapest. She was foreign affairs op-ed writer for Heti Valasz and was research associate at the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies, IISS, where her paper, “Central European Civil-Military Reforms At Risk,” was published by Oxford University Press. Her more recent publications include Covid-19 and the EU Response, Chat with Margaritis Schinas, European Commission Vice-President, April 9 2020.

Réka’s has a PhD in Economic History and Energy Security, from Pázmány Péter University and a MA in Strategic Studies from SAIS, the Johns Hopkins University. She is Honorary University Professor of the National Public University, Budapest, and Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters of Marymount University, Virginia.