Adama Sanneh

Italy

Adama is the co-founder and CEO of the Moleskine Foundation. He brings a unique background in management and cultural studies to his work designing and building innovative organisations. Adama graduated with a degree in linguistic and cultural mediation from the University of Milan. He also obtained a master's in public management from the Bocconi School of Management and a master's in business administration from the University of Geneva. As Moleskine Foundation CEO, he explores and leverages the intersection of business, education, culture, and social development to create new and meaningful public value.

Work from this contributor

Race Beyond Borders

Crafting a Black Italian IdentityCrafting a Black Italian Identity

Season 2 of Race Beyond Borders begins with a moving conversation with Adama Sanneh, co-founder and CEO of the Moleskine Foundation. Sanneh walks us through his coming of age as a young Black man in an Italy plagued by cultural silences about blackness. Despite these difficulties, Sanneh embraces possibilities for the emergence of an expansive Black identity in Italy, one fashioned by those who embody it.