Romano Prodi is an Italian politician who served as President of the European Commission from 1999 to 2004 and twice as Prime Minister of Italy, from 1996 to 1998, and again from 2006 to 2008. Prodi is considered the founder of the Italian centre-left and one of the most prominent figures of the Second Republic. He is often nicknamed Il Professore due to his academic career.
Enel S.p.A. is an Italian multinational manufacturer and distributor of electricity and gas. Enel was first established as a public body at the end of 1962, and then transformed into a limited company in 1992. In 1999, following the liberalisation of the electricity market in Italy, Enel was privatised. The Italian state, through the Ministry of Economy and Finance, is the main shareholder, with 23.6% of the share capital as of 1 April 2016.
Paolo De Castro is an Italian politician. He was Minister of Agriculture, Food and Forestry Policies in the D'Alema I, D'Alema II and Prodi II cabinets.
Gianfranco Pasquino is an Italian political scientist.
Alberto Melloni is an Italian church historian and a Unesco Chairholder of the Chair on Religious Pluralism & Peace, primarily known for his work on the Councils and the Second Vatican Council. Since 2020, he is one of the European Commission's Chief Scientific Advisors.
Ignazio Visco is an Italian economist and central banker and Governor of the Bank of Italy from 2011 to 2023.
Elsa Fornero is an Italian economist, university lecturer, and politician who served as Minister of Labour and Social Policies in the Monti Cabinet from November 2011 to April 2013.
Luca Serianni was an Italian linguist and philologist.
Pietro Trifone, is an Italian linguist.
Dino Piero Giarda is an Italian economist and academia. He served as Minister without portfolio for Parliamentary Relations and Implementation of the Government Program in the Monti Cabinet.
Salvatore RossiOMRI is an Italian economist. He is Senior Deputy Governor of the Bank of Italy and President of the Italian Insurance Supervisory Authority.
Alberto Clò is an Italian businessman, politician and academic. He served as minister of industry from 1995 to 1996. He was also director of the Italian company Eni SpA.
Francesco Starace is an Italian business executive, from 2014 to 2023 he was CEO and general manager of Enel Group.
Mario Pirani Coen was an Italian journalist, economist, and writer.
Luca Desiata is an Italian manager, Latinist and art curator. He was the CEO of SOGIN between 2016 and 2019. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of the magazine of Latin crosswords Hebdomada Aenigmatum and of the magazine of crosswords in Ancient Greek Onomata Kechiasmena. He is the curator of the Corporate Art Awards.
Giuseppe Alberigo was an Italian Catholic historian and editor of a history of the Second Vatican Council that focuses on alleged discontinuities and departures from previous Church teaching.
Giovanni Lo Storto is the General Manager of Luiss Guido Carli University.
Massimo Panizzi is an Italian Army Lieutenant General who currently serves as the Commander of the Italian Army Territorial Command in Rome and Commander of the Military Geographic Institute in Florence. He previously served as the Italian Deputy Military Representative to the NATO Military Committee and Chief of the NATO Office of the Italian Military Delegation at NATO HQ, Brussels. He participated in numerous international military operations and he has served as the Deputy Chief of staff Support for the NATO Resolute Support Mission in Kabul. He assumed the assignment of Deputy Commander of the Military Command of the Capital in Rome on September 19, 2022. Since August 2023 he assumed the command of the Capital (Territorial) Command within the Italian Army Operational Forces HQ (Rome) and of the Military Geographic Institute (Florence).
Patrizio Bianchi is an Italian economist and academic, current chairholder of the UNESCO Chair in Education, Growth and Equality. He served as minister of education in the Draghi Cabinet from 2021 to 2022.
Paolo Prodi was an Italian historian and politician.
