Professional journalist, he has conceived and leads, on Radio 1 Rai, Eta Beta, a program dedicated to the innovative ferments that invest society – from the web to the economy, from leisure to culture – and that looks with particular attention to the young protagonists of this great transformation underway. It also tells about the phenomena of innovation in the Radio Rai Morning Newspapers (Gr1, Gr2, Gr3). As a screenwriter, after attending the Rai-Script Course and the New York Film Academy, he wrote the subjects and screenplays of television miniseries for Rai such as Papa Giovanni (2002), Mother Teresa (2003) and Papa Luciani (2006); under the pseudonym Elia Contini he signed the screenplay for the television miniseries for Canale 5 Il Generale Dalla Chiesa (2007). Graduated with honors in Law, he also worked for Paese Sera, L’Espresso, Italia Oggi and for Tg3. He received a special mention from the jury of the Ilaria Alpi Prize in 1998 and the Smau Prize for Innovation in 1995. Married to Paola, he has two children, Esther and Teo.