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Mario Calvo-Platero (born April 26, 1954) is an Italian journalist who has been the US editor of the prestigious Italian newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore for over 30 years up to 2017. Now he is a columnist for La Stampa. He obtained the U.S. citizenship.
He was born and lived in Tripoli until 1967. He studied economics at the University of Turin and later International Affairs at Columbia University. He has worked at the United Nations, dealing with research on transnational banks, and at a bank in New York.
Having moved to the United States in 1978, he started writing for La Stampa that same year. It was in 1979 that he finally became a correspondent for Il Sole 24 Ore. He eventually moved on to found the American editorial of Il Sole 24 Ore as well as creating Economic & Management Consultants Inc. (EMC Inc.) in 1982, which provides journalistic services in real time. He also created Review Italy, a newsletter written in English on Italian economics and business.
He interviewed Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton at the White House. War correspondent during the 1991 Gulf War, he followed the September 11 attacks. He is a member of various associations including the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in London, the New York Financial Writers Association and he is the president of the Palazzo Strozzi Foundation USA.
On March 1, 2017, the working relationship with Il Sole 24 Ore was terminated by mutual agreement, maintaining however a collaboration as editorialist and host, until December 29, 2017, of America 24 on Radio 24. On February 28, 2018, he definitively terminated his almost thirty-year collaboration with Il Sole 24 Ore and starting from the following day he became a columnist for La Stampa newspaper.
Mario Platero has been the host of a radio show, America 24 (2010–2017), on the air from Monday to Friday on Radio 24 and was the editor-in-chief of a news website published in New York, www.america24.com.
He currently lives in New York with his wife, Ariadne Grace Beaumont, and three children.
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Corriere della Sera is an Italian daily newspaper published in Milan with an average circulation of 246,278 copies in May 2023. First published on 5 March 1876, Corriere della Sera is one of Italy's oldest newspapers and is Italy's most read newspaper. Its masthead has remained unchanged since its first edition in 1876. It reached a circulation of over 1 million under editor and co-owner Luigi Albertini between 1900 and 1925. He was a strong opponent of socialism, clericalism, and Giovanni Giolitti, who was willing to compromise with those forces during his time as prime minister of Italy. Albertini's opposition to the Italian fascist regime forced the other co-owners to oust him in 1925.
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Giordano Dell'Amore was an Italian economist and banker.
Massimo Tononi is an Italian banker and politician. Chairman of Banco BPM.
Francesco Sisci is an Italian sinologist, author and columnist who lives and works in Beijing. Currently he is a senior researcher at Renmin University of China and contributes to several journals and think tanks on geopolitical issues. In 2016, he was granted the first interview to the Pope on China. The interview has received widespread coverage in the Chinese press, for the first time in the history of the Chinese Communist Party. He was a contributor for Il Sole 24ore and for Asia Times with the column Sinograph and a frequent commentator on international affairs for CCTV and Phoenix TV.
Mario Cervi was an Italian essayist and journalist.
Christian Rocca is an Italian newspaper journalist and blogger. As a writer, he is the author of the essay Sulle strade di Barney (2010), a voyage into the world of Mordecai Richler, the author of Barney's Version.
Furio Colombo is an Italian journalist and politician. He is the former editor-in-chief of L'Unità.
Claudio Borghi is an Italian businessman, former lecturer and politician, one of the top economic spokesmen of Italy's League party.
Federico Rampini is an Italian journalist, writer, and lecturer who holds both Italian and American citizenship. He served as deputy editor of Il Sole 24 Ore, and has worked as chief foreign correspondent for La Repubblica since 1997. He has been residing in the United States since 2000. He is the 2019 recipient of the Ernest Hemingway Prize.
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