Oliviero Toscani (IT)
Oliviero Toscani is a photographer, best-known worldwide for designing controversial advertising campaigns for Italian brand Benetton from 1982 to 2000. After obtaining his diploma at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Zurich, he started working with different magazines, including Elle, Vogue, L’Uomo Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar. In 1982 he started working as Art Director for the Benetton Group. In the early 1990s, Toscani co-founded the magazine Colors (also owned by Benetton). In 2005, he sparked controversy again with his photographs for an advertising campaign for the men’s clothing brand Ra-Re. In September 2007, a new campaign against anorexia was again controversial due to his shocking photography of an emaciated woman. A long-term Tuscany resident, in 2003 he created in collaboration with Regione Toscana a new research facility for modern communication called La Sterpaia.

Robert Madelin (UK/BE)
Robert Madelin is the Director-General responsible for the Digital Agenda for Europe. He was educated in England at the Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe and at Magdalen College, Oxford. He has also studied at the Ecole Nationale d’Administration in Paris. Born in 1957, a British civil servant since 1979, Robert Madelin has served in the Commission since 1993: in his current post since 2010; as Director-General for Health and Consumer Policies from 2004 to 2010; on trade and investment policy before that.

Robert Madelin (UK/BE)
Robert Madelin is the Director-General responsible for the Digital Agenda for Europe. He was educated in England at the Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe and at Magdalen College, Oxford. He has also studied at the Ecole Nationale d’Administration in Paris. Born in 1957, a British civil servant since 1979, Robert Madelin has served in the Commission since 1993: in his current post since 2010; as Director-General for Health and Consumer Policies from 2004 to 2010; on trade and investment policy before that.