Luca Desiata (born December 10, 1971) is an Italian manager,

Latinist Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through the power of the ...

and

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. He was the CEO of

SOGIN SOGIN ('' it, Società Gestione Impianti Nucleari'', the Nuclear Plant Management Company, which is also called Sogin) is an Italian state-owned enterprise responsible for nuclear decommissioning as well as management and disposal of radioactiv ...

between 2016 and 2019. He is the founder and

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of the magazine of

Latin Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through the power of the ...

crosswords Hebdomada Aenigmatum and of the magazine of crosswords in Ancient Greek

Onomata Kechiasmena ''Hebdomada Aenigmatum'' is the first magazine of crosswords in Latin. Contents The magazine features several crosswords and word puzzles in Latin, a variation of Sudoku with Roman numerals, a section with global news, a comic strip of Incred ...

. He is the curator of the

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Classical Languages

He founded Hebdomada Aenigmatum in June 2014 under the pseudonym of Lucas Cupidus and Onomata Kechiasmena in May 2015 with the name of Λουκᾶς Δεσιάτα. He organized numerous events for students and professionals, in order to foster the use of Latin and ancient Greek in modern society: the first ''Certamen Aenigmatum Latinorum'' (Latin Enigmatic Olympiad) at the X Festival Européen Latin-Grec at the

École normale supérieure de Lyon The École normale supérieure de Lyon (also known as ENS de Lyon, ENSL or Normale Sup' Lyon) is a French grande école located in the city of Lyon. It is one of the four prestigious écoles normales supérieures in France. The school is ...

; the seminar "Business Latin - Latin expressions for the modern manager" for the association of

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executives; several presentations about "Latin in the Internet age", of which two in 2017 at the

Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa The Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa (commonly known in Italy as "la Normale") is a public university in Pisa and Florence, Tuscany, Italy, currently attended by about 600 undergraduate and postgraduate (PhD) students. It was founded in 1810 w ...

. On December 5, 2016 in Rome, he signed a memorandum of understanding with the

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to promote the use of Latin and Greek crosswords as a tool to facilitate learning ancient languages.

Corporate Art

Under the patronage of the Italian Ministry of Culture, in 2016 he organized the first edition of the "

", with the aim to recognize the best art projects of the Corporate World. In the 2017 edition, the scope of the Corporate Art Awards was extended to include the Institutional world, too. Therefore the program was renamed “Mecenati of the XXI century”. The 2017 Awards Ceremony was hosted by the President of the Italian Republic

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at the

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. In 2015 Desiata curated the Corporate Art exhibit at the

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. He was a professor of

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at LUISS Business School between 2014 and 2016. In 2014 he founded

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, the first art- crowdsourcing platform.

Management

In July 2016 he was nominated Chief Executive Officer of

, the Italian state owned company responsible for the decommissioning of the Italian nuclear plants. In September 2017, he submitted the Italian nuclear decommissioning program to an independent peer review of the International Atomic Energy Agency. From 1995 to 2002 he worked for

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, Accenture and

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. From 2002 to 2006, he joined the

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in Belgrade as an advisor to the Privatization Agency of the

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. From 2006 to 2016 he held different roles in

. He holds an engineering degree at the

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, a diploma at the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa and an

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Business School. He was awarded the Italian national honour of Knight of the

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in 2006.

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included him in the Italian list of the 2019 winning managers. In May 2018 he ranked 24th in TopManager’s reputation ranking of Italian top managers.

Other activities

He is the author of "Scacchi e strategie aziendali" (Chess and Corporate Strategy) with

Anatoly Karpov Anatoly Yevgenyevich Karpov ( rus, links=no, Анато́лий Евге́ньевич Ка́рпов, p=ɐnɐˈtolʲɪj jɪvˈɡʲenʲjɪvʲɪtɕ ˈkarpəf; born May 23, 1951) is a Russian and former Soviet chess grandmaster, former World Che ...

, 12th chess world champion, and Rocco Sabelli, former Ceo of

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