Alessandro Messina (born 1969) is an Italian economist and manager. His main fields of interest are nonprofit organizations, ethical banking and local development.
Part of the Italian team, he contributed to the Handbook on Non-Profit Institutions in the System of National Accounts, [1] edited by the United Nations, New York (2003).
From 2001 to 2004 he has been President of the Italian Ethical Finance Association, who represented the national movement of citizens and operators active in ethical banking.
In 2006 the City of Rome received the European Enterprise Award [2] by the European Commission for the programme aimed at promoting new small businesses in the suburbs, which Alessandro Messina managed from 2004 to 2007.
In 2014 he has been Italian Rapporteur to the G8 Social Impact Investment Taskforce. [3]
From June 2015 to October 2021 he has been in charge of the General Management (CEO) at Banca Etica, the first bank active in promoting ethical banking in Italy, member of the Global Alliance for Banking on Values and of FEBEA, the European Federation of Ethical and Alternative Banks. [4]
RAI – Radiotelevisione italiana, commercially styled as Rai since 2000 and known until 1954 as Radio Audizioni Italiane, is the national public broadcasting company of Italy, owned by the Ministry of Economy and Finance. RAI operates many terrestrial and subscription television channels and radio stations. It is one of the biggest broadcasters in Europe, and the biggest in Italy competing with Mediaset and other minor radio and television networks. RAI has a relatively high television audience share of 35.9%.
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Sebastiano Maffettone is a political philosopher and University Professor at LUISS Guido Carli University of Rome, where he teaches Political Philosophy and Theories of Globalization. He has taught in several Italian universities as well as International universities. Maffettone graduated summa cum laude from the University of Naples in 1970, and he completed his graduate studies in social philosophy LSE in 1976, under the supervision of philosophers such as Karl Popper and Amartya K. Sen.
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