Maurizio Mariani

Founder & Director OF Eating City

Maurizio Mariani is the founder of the Consortium Risteco; a member of the ‘Groupe de Bruges’ and the founder of the Advisory Council of the MCA (Mediterranean Citizen Assembly Foundation). He is an expert in economy and environment impacts related to hospitality & food service.

Maurizio worked as researcher and facilitator along with the Charles Leopold Mayer Foundation in 2006 to develop a new model of city food governance within the framework of the international ‘Eating City’ platform managed by Risteco. He has also been running the ‘Eating City Summer Campus’ since 2013 in La Bergerie de Villarceaux.

Maurizio also designed the Risteco handbooks (‘Quaderni di Risteco’) and the projects of ‘il Pranzo Sostenibile (The Sustainable Mea”). He is one of the co-authors of ‘La ville qui mange’ and ‘City food Policies. Securing our daily bread in an urbanizing world.’