Riccardo Pozzo received his M.A. at Università di Milano in 1983, his Ph.D. at Universität des Saarlandes in 1988, and his Habilitation at Universität Trier in 1995. In 1996, he went to the U.S. to teach German Philosophy at the School of Philosophy of the Catholic University of America. In 2003, he came back to Italy to take up the Chair of the History of Philosophy at Università di Verona. Since 2019 he holds the Chair of the History of Philosophy at the University of Rome Tor Vergata. From 2009 to 2012, he was Director of the Institute for the European Intellectual Lexicon and History of Ideas of the National Research Council of Italy. From 2012 to 2017, he served as Director of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Cultural Heritage of the National Research Council of Italy. Elected full member of the Institut International de Philosophie, of which he is currently vice-president, and member of the World Congress of Philosophy Melbourne 2023 program committee. Appointed member of the Horizon 2020 Programme Committee Configuration Research Infrastructures. On Sep. 21, 2015 he appeared on CCTV-News in “Dialogue: Ideas Matter,” moderated by Yang Rui. His areas of specialization are: Migration Studies, Cultural Innovation, Lexicography, Aristotelianism, the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, Kant and Hegel.
