Vision is a think tank that brings together researchers and young Italian professionals educated in leading universities and European capitals, united by the belief that today’s technological revolution is transforming institutions and redefining the governance of economic systems.

The Director of Vision is Francesco Grillo, Professor at Bocconi University and Fellow at the European University Institute. He holds a PhD from the London School of Economics and has been a visiting scholar at the University of Oxford. He is also an editor for Corriere della Sera and Il Messaggero, with previous teaching experience at the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa and at UIBE in Beijing.

Among Vision’s most recent initiatives is a major project on housing policy at both Italian and EU levels, focused on identifying concrete strategies to address the housing crisis in Europe’s main cities. In the past, Vision contributed to the project “Fisco per il ventunesimo secolo”, created for the National Bar Council, the National Order of Accountants, and the National Council of Notaries. More recently, Vision has been involved in the “Reform of Civil Justice” project.

Vision is also developing social innovation projects across Europe and Italy. These initiatives engage younger generations in designing technologies that enable older people to access remote health services, while involving the elderly as mentors for young people entering the job market. This social innovation model is currently being piloted in Italy in Novara, Lucca, Caserta, and Cosenza.

In 2025, the sixth edition of the Siena Conference and the fourth edition of the Dolomite Conference brought together more than 200 participants, including: Romano Prodi (former President of the European Commission and former Prime Minister of Italy); Enrico Giovannini (former Minister of Labor and Social Policies); Daniele Franco (former Minister of Economy and Finance); Josh Parker (Head of Sustainability at NVIDIA); Izabela Teixeira (former Brazilian Minister of Environment); Alexandra Borchardt, Senior Research Associate at Oxford University); Bill Emmott (former Director of The Economist).