Riccardo Campa (born 4 May 1967, in Mantua) is Professor of Sociology at the University of Cracow.
Prior to becoming an academic, Campa was a police lieutenant with Guardia di Finanza and a journalist for La Voce di Mantova (The Voice of Mantua) and the newsmagazine Il Mondo (The World).
[1] Campa has authored four books, titled Epistemological Dimensions of Robert Merton’s Sociology (2001), Il filosofo è nudo (2001), "Etica della scienza pura" (2007), and "Mutare o perire.
La sfida del transumanesimo" (2010), and his articles frequently appear in MondOperaio, an Italian socialist journal.
He founded and is currently president of the Italian Transhumanist Association, and is a Fellow of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies.