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About Us
Mission
Gentium Strategic Partners was founded on the conviction that today’s global landscape — shaped by unprecedented transformations — requires a new consulting paradigm. Traditional categories through which we once understood the world are collapsing, and with them, the conventional boundaries of expertise.
Guided by the idea that reality and knowledge are fundamentally unified, we offer an interdisciplinary model that brings together legal, economic, and geopolitical competencies. Our approach moves beyond rigid, compartmentalised consultancy structures to help clients navigate complex challenges across jurisdictions, institutions, and sectors.
How we work
Our work is grounded in rigorous analysis and shaped by interdisciplinary thinking. But what sets us apart is our international footprint — we bring lived experience from institutions, universities, and legal systems across Europe and the United States.
This global perspective gives us access to trusted networks, insider knowledge, and the ability to produce in-depth, context-aware analysis across borders.
Who we are
Gentium Strategic Partners is an interdisciplinary team of legal experts, economists, international affairs specialists, and policy professionals. Our members combine academic insight with real-world experience across institutions, legal systems, and global markets.
Partner / International law
Prof. Luigi Crema
Luigi Crema is a professor of international law at the University of Milan, where he also coordinates the Master’s program in Law and Sustainable Development and contributes to the doctoral school in Law, Ethics, and Economics for Sustainability.
He earned his PhD in international law jointly between the Universities of Geneva and Milan and has held research and teaching appointments at the University of Neuchâtel, NYU, and the University of Notre Dame.
His work focuses on treaty interpretation, the authority of international courts, and the evolution of legal reasoning in global governance. His publications have been cited by UN bodies and international courts, and he has been invited to present in Europe, North America, and at the United Nations.
Beyond academia, he has advised the Italian government in investment arbitration proceedings and represented the Holy See in negotiations at WIPO. His interdisciplinary work bridges law, policy, and institutional design in a global context.
Partner / Political Economy
Prof. Emanuele Bracco
Emanuele Bracco is an applied economist and Associate Professor at the University of Verona, specialising in political economy, fiscal federalism, and institutional design.
He earned his PhD in Economics from the University of Warwick (UK), following a Master’s from the London School of Economics, and began his academic career at Lancaster University, where he taught for eight years.
His research applies econometric and causal inference methods to topics such as local public finance, immigration, populism, electoral behaviour, and social capital. His work has been published in top-ranked journals like the Journal of Public Economics and the European Journal of Political Economy.
Prof. Bracco is a regular speaker at international conferences, and a member of scientific associations including the Royal Economic Society. He is also part of the Scientific Committee of the De Gasperi Foundation.
Partner / European Union
Riccardo Caruso
Riccardo Caruso is a lawyer with expertise in public and European Union law. He currently practises administrative and regulatory law, having previously worked at an international law firm in Brussels and Milan, where he specialised in antitrust, state aid and foreign direct investment (FDI) regulation.
In Brussels he was also involved in institutional affairs, engaging with trade associations, EU institutions, and national representations. This exposure gave him a comprehensive understanding of the European policy process and stakeholder dynamics.
Riccardo is completing a PhD in EU Law at Università Cattolica, with a dissertation on the EU’s unilateral regulatory reach in international law, spanning climate, digital, and trade policy. He has conducted research at KU Leuven and collaborated with the Legal Adviser of the Italian Permanent Representation to the EU.
His profile combines litigation and advisory experience, policy engagement, and academic research, offering a multidimensional perspective on legal and institutional challenges in European and international governance.
Partner / Energy
Nicola Brizielli
Nicola Brizielli is a specialist in energy markets, regulatory strategy, and institutional affairs, with over a decade of experience in multinational corporations and industry associations.
He currently works as Account Manager Italy at enmacc, a digital energy trading platform, where he leads sales and business development within the Italian cluster and promotes the market for EUAs, GOs, and environmental commodities.
Previously, he served as LNG Venture Manager at Edison (EDF Group), where he was responsible for aligning regulatory and commercial strategies in the LNG and Bio-LNG sectors, and for institutional coordination with stakeholders in Rome and Brussels.
His earlier roles at ExxonMobil included supply chain, marine logistics, and international commercial development, with operational responsibility for markets in Italy, Malta, Croatia, and beyond.
Nicola holds an MBA in Energy Business from Politecnico di Milano, and has a multidisciplinary background in law and economics. He is a member of the Transport Committee of Eurogas, contributing to European-level regulatory positioning in the gas sector.
Partner / U.S.A.
Mariangela Sullivan
Mariangela Sullivan is a New York-qualified attorney and legal translator with experience across the U.S. and Italy. Trained at Yale University and Notre Dame Law School, she has worked in litigation, judicial clerkship, and comparative constitutional law.
She served as a judicial clerk at the New York State Supreme Court and as an associate attorney in a litigation firm in New York City. She later contributed to public legal defence in Indiana and held research roles at the University of Notre Dame.
Over the past decade, Mariangela has specialised in high-level legal translation and editing, with a particular focus on constitutional and international law. She has translated and reviewed judgments of the Italian Constitutional Court and scholarly works for Oxford University Press, Elgar, and Treccani.
Her unique professional path, spanning U.S. courts and European institutions, allows her to navigate and translate between distinct legal cultures with precision and depth. Through her work in litigation, academia, and legal translation, she builds bridges between American and European legal thought, contributing to cross-jurisdictional understanding in areas such as constitutional law, human rights, and international adjudication.