"NEVER...

...judge a book by its cover"

This guy is not what he appears.

Let's face it - he looks like a hippy - he's cool & a genuinely nice fellow. He plays pretty good guitar & over his weekends he builds instruments - BUT...

His day job is a high-flying professorship in a Rome university in political science!! We fist met him when he was lecturing in the ULB (Université Libre de Bruxelles) - the he got head-hunted to Rome.

He hails from Calabria.