Giancarlo Livraghi (25 November 1927 – 22 February 2014) was an Italian author and advertising executive.

Born in Milan and graduated in philosophy at the University of Milan, while studying he had started working as a reporter, an editor and a bibliographer. His first full-time job began in 1952, when he joined as a copywriter in the CPV agency (Italian headquarters of Colman, Prentis and Varley) becoming a short time later the creative director of the agency. He worked for many major Italian and international companies of the advertising industry, also holding institutional positions.[1]

As a scholar, starting from the 1990s Livraghi studied and analyzed in several publications the values of human communication via internet.[1] He was co-founder, with Andrea Mazzucchi, and first president of ALCEI, initially conceived as the Italian branch of EFF.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 Vittorio Pasteris (27 February 2014). "È morto Giancarlo Livraghi, uno dei grandi della pubblicità e della Rete italiana". Il Fatto Quotidiano. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  2. ↑ "ALCEI". Retrieved 10 October 2014.
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