Richard Harris

Richard Harris has lived and worked in Italy since 1989. Previously in the UK and then in Italy, he worked in communications and strategy in real estate and the development of the built environment, smart cities included. In 1999 he was the founding director of EPIC, Italy’s first full-scale real estate conference, and in the following years he organised and developed several more international conferences in Europe and elsewhere. He believes that the most important things in real estate (and everything else) are the three TR’s: Truth, Trust and Transparency. Not all agree. In 2012 he launched Maremma.TV, which organises conferences with the emphasis on open discussion between members of the public and subject experts. A related initiative is the Italian-language magazine “La Spia della Maremma”, which seeks to stimulate analysis and debate of the future of a territory (rural Maremma) that can be considered a metaphor for an Italy in which conservation and innovation must learn to cohabit.