Luigi Possenti
Head
Born in Teramo in 1969, he graduated in Electronic Engineering in 1996 from the University of L’Aquila. He is an expert in Information Systems for Animal Identification and Registration, animal health, and food safety, with over twenty years of experience in the development of complex information systems in the field of veterinary public health, as well as in the design of web applications and distributed web-based systems.
Born in Teramo in 1969, he graduated in Electronic Engineering in 1996 from the University of L’Aquila. He is an expert in Information Systems for Animal Identification and Registration, animal health, and food safety, with over twenty years of experience in the development of complex information systems in the field of veterinary public health, as well as in the design of web applications and distributed web-based systems.
He began his professional career in 1998 at Olivetti Sanità, working on the development and management of information systems for the veterinary services of the Abruzzo Region. In 1999, on behalf of the Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell’Abruzzo e del Molise (IZSAM), he was involved in the design and development of the National Cattle Database (BDN), commissioned by the Italian Ministry of Health. This was later extended to cover all livestock species, followed by the creation of various related veterinary information systems.
He has been serving as Chief Information Officer at IZSAM since 2001 and has been actively involved in projects on animal identification and registration systems. Since 2002, he has supported the Italian Ministry of Health as a technical expert in the European Commission’s working group on animal identification and registration.
In 2008, he was appointed—on behalf of the Italian Ministry of Health—as a member of the European Commission’s Task Force on Interoperability between Member States for the Electronic Exchange of Cattle Data (Bovex Project).
Since 2009, he has been Head of the National Service Centre at IZSAM, which, on behalf of the Ministry of Health, manages National Livestock Databases and Veterinary Information Systems.
He has participated in several national and international projects on animal identification, animal health, and food safety. Most recently, he coordinated the development of the National Information System for Electronic Veterinary Prescriptions and Pharmacovigilance.
Since April 2021, he has been Acting Head of the Laboratory for Information and Communication Technologies at IZSAM, and in April 2024, he was officially appointed as Head of the unit.
