Luca Saltalamacchia has been involved in environmental and peace movements since his youth. He graduated in Law from the Federico II University in Naples in 1997 with a thesis on the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. He deals with civil law, as well as environmental protection and human rights. On behalf of associations and movements, he has followed a number of cases of human rights violations perpetrated by Italian multinationals against local populations as a result of projects with a strong environmental impact.