Second General Meeting Age-It - October, 29-31, 2025
Keynote speakers
Andrea Baccarelli
Andrea Baccarelli, Andrea Baccarelli, MD, PhD, is the Dean of the Faculty at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. His work on the health impact of environmental exposures has been used by agencies worldwide to shape pollution control policies. Dr. Baccarelli previously served as chair of the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at Columbia Mailman School of Public Health, director of the NIH/NIEHS P30 Center for Environmental Health and Justice and president of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine. Dr. Baccarelli holds an MD from the University of Perugia in Italy, an MS in Epidemiology from the University of Turin, and a PhD from the University of Milan.
Wolfgang Lutz
Wolfgang Lutz is the IIASA Sherpa for Asia and holds the title of Distinguished Emeritus Research Scholar at IIASA. In addition to the numerous roles he has held at IIASA over the years, among which were Acting Director General, Interim Deputy Director General for Science, and Program Director, Lutz is the Founding Director of the Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital, a cooperation between IIASA, the University of Vienna, and the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
He is a leading academic in the field of population and sustainable development and was one of the scientists appointed by the UN to write the Global Sustainable Development Report 2019 titled, The Future is Now.
Angelica Salvi
Del Pero
Angelica Salvi Del Pero is Senior Advisor to the OECD’s Director for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs. She also leads the directorate’s work on governance of AI in the labour market and on Global Relations. She previsously worked as an economist in the Social Policy Division of the OECD and, before joining the OECD in 2010, a consultant for the World Bank and a research fellow at Centro Studi Luca d’Agliano. Angelica holds a Ph.D in Economics from the University of Milan.
Alfonso J.
Cruz-Jentoft
Alfonso J. Cruz-Jentoft (MD, PhD) is a specialist in Geriatric Medicine. He is Chair of the Geriatric Department at the Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal in Madrid, and Associate Professor of Geriatrics at the Universidad Europea de Madrid, Spain. He is corresponding member of the Royal National Academy of Medicine of Spain. Founder and Past President of the European Geriatric Medicine Society (EuGMS), he is currently Editor-in-Chief of European Geriatric Medicine, the official journal of this society. He coordinates the European Working Group on Sarcopenia in Older People (EWGSOP) and the Global Leadership Initiative on Sarcopenia (GLIS). Member of the WHO Clinical Consortium on Healthy Ageing, he serves in the Editorial Board of most major geriatric medicine journals (Age Ageing, J Am Geriatr Soc, JAMDA, JNHA, Aging Clin Exp Res). He has been recognized in 2022 and 2024 as Highly Cited Researcher (Clarivate).
Regina Roller Wirnsberger
Prof. Regina Roller Wirnsberger, MD, MME is Full Professor of Geriatric Medicine at the Medical University of Graz, Austria, where she leads the Research Unit of “Service for Old Age and Lifelong Health”. She has long-standing expertise in undergraduate curricular development and interprofessional education, serving as spokesperson for the Human Medicine Curricular Commission at her university. Since 2005, she has been engaged in academic research programs in geriatric medicine and public health, with a particular focus on education, nutrition, and complex care management for older adults.
Prof. Roller-Wirnsberger has contributed as work package and task leader to multiple EU- funded initiatives, including Horizon Europe and Erasmus+ projects, addressing integrated care, education, and training. She currently chairs Working Group 4 of the COST Action PROGRAMMING, where she leads the development of an educational framework for interprofessional geriatric healthcare. In addition, she holds positions on several national and international boards, shaping policies, guidelines, and standards for geriatric practice and lifelong health promotion.