Gianni Bonini was born in 1950 and, in the same city, he graduated in Literature at the University of Literature and Philosophy.
In the Eighties, on behalf of the Municipality of Florence, he directed the cultural decentralization sector and the electronic cataloging project of the city's cultural heritage.
In 1990 he was elected, and later confirmed for two terms, as President of Fiorentinagas, the multi-service company controlled by ENI, and became a member of the national board of Anigas.
Subsequently he went on to serve as CEO in numerous conventional (GEA, Geacom, Sev, Alegas) and renewable energy companies, especially in the innovative sector of agroenergy, photovoltaic and biomass (Terrae, Agrisviluppo, Il Ceppo, Agriventure).
Currently he is a senior fellow of the think tank Il Nodo di Gordio for which he writes about geopolitics.
Since 2011 he has been Delegate for Italy in the Governing Board of CIHEAM –Center International de Hautes Études Agronomiques Méditerranéennes – a Euro-Mediterranean organization for the development and training in agriculture founded in 1962 and participated by thirteen countries of the Mediterranean basin.
He directed the IF quarterly and the Energie del Mediterraneo blog, with a focus on major global food, water and energy emergencies.
As part of its extensive publications, in 2018, he authored Il MediterraneoNuovo for the independent label Samizdat, a miscellany of his essays on the epochal changes that took place in the "enlarged Mediterranean" basin after the Cold war and the break in the status quo that exploded with Arab springs.