Before entering politics he held numerous posts in planning and economics at Ca' Foscari University of Venice,University of Reading,U.K.,and New York University. He served as pro-rector of Ca' Foscari University in Venice (1992–1996). He was a member of Venice City Council (1997–2000) and mayor of Venice (2000–2005). He was chairman of the Council of AISRE (Italian Association of Regional Science) (1982–1984);member of the Scientific Committee for the Italian General Transport Plan (1985–1987),and Italian Minister for Public Works (1996–1998).
He received the honour of Knight of the Grand Cross,Order of Merit of the Italian Republic in 1998.
Francesco Foscari was the 65th Doge of the Republic of Venice from 1423 to 1457. His reign, the longest of all Doges in Venetian history, lasted 34 years, 6 months and 8 days, and coincided with the inception of the Italian Renaissance.
Ca' Foscari University of Venice is a public university in Venice, Italy. Since its foundation in 1868, it has been housed in the Venetian Gothic palace of Ca' Foscari, from which it takes its name. The palace stands on the Grand Canal, between the Rialto and San Marco, in the sestiere of Dorsoduro.
Henrik Dam Kristensen is a Danish politician and the current speaker of the Danish parliament. He has been a member of the Danish parliament for the Social Democrats from 1990 to 2004 and again from 2007, during which he served as Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries (1994–1996), Minister for Food (1996–2000), Minister for Social Affairs (2000–2001), Minister for Transport (2011–2013) and Minister for Employment (2014–2015). He served as President of the Nordic Council in 2011 and 2016.
Hannes Swoboda is an Austrian social democratic politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament from 1996 until 2014. Within the Parliament, he represents the Social Democratic Party of Austria and from January 2012 to June 2014, he was also the President of the group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats.
Gianni De Michelis was an Italian politician, prominent member of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI), who served as minister in many Italian governments in the 1980s and early 1990s.
Amalia Sartori is an Italian politician.
Francesco Musotto was an Italian politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Islands. He is the son of Giovanni Musotto, a notable professor in criminal law at the University of Palermo and member Italian Socialist Party.
Paolo De Castro is an Italian politician, Minister of Agriculture, Food and Forestry Policies in the D'Alema I, D'Alema II and Prodi II cabinets.
Corrado Maria Daclon is an Italian scientist and journalist.
Alberto de' Stefani was an Italian politician and economist. Coming from a background in liberalism to Benito Mussolini's Italian fascism, De Stefani was in charge of Italian economics from 1922 to 1925. His time in charge was characterized by laissez-faire ideals.
Carlo Carraro is the chancellor of the University of Venice for the three-year period 2009–2012, with a two-year extension of his mandate in accordance to the Gelmini University Law bringing it up to summer 2014. He is also professor of environmental economics at the same university. He is director of the Sustainable Development Programme of the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei and director of the Climate Impacts and Policy Division of the Euro-Mediterranean Center for Climate Change (CMCC). In 2008, Carraro was elected vice-chair of the Working Group III and member of the bureau of the Nobel Laureate Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Christos Papoutsis is a Greek socialist politician who has served as Minister for Citizen Protection (2010–12), Mercantile Marine Minister (2000–01) Member of the European Parliament (1984–95) and European Commissioner for Energy and Euratom Supply Agency, Small business and Tourism (1995–1999). He has also served as the Secretary of the Parliamentary Group and Parliamentary Spokesman for the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK), the majority party in Greece (2009–2010). He also was candidate for Mayor of Athens (2002).
Giorgio Orsoni is an Italian lawyer, politician and a former mayor of Venice.
Venice International University(VIU) is an international center for higher education and research located on the island of San Servolo, in Venice, Italy.
Francesco Gostoli is an Italian architect. He has written a great number of articles and studies for journals and magazines such as Spazio & Società. He invented the Metro Armonico, a means of creating and defining ergonomic dimensions, published in “Architecture as I see it”, 2004.
Enrico Zanetti is an Italian politician and tax advisor. He was appointed Secretary of Civic Choice in February 2015.
Gabriella Battaini-Dragoni is an Italian author, educator and politician, currently serving as the Deputy Secretary General of the Council of Europe. She previously held the post of Director General of Programs and was the first female Director General in the history of the Council of Europe.
Chiara Mio is an Italian business executive, accounting and sustainability researcher. She is a full professor at the Department of Management at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy. As a chairwoman of Crédit Agricole FriulAdria, Mio became the first woman in Italy to lead a commercial bank.
Vincenzo Tangorra (1866–1922) was an Italian academic and politician who served as the minister of treasury between October and December 1922. He worked at the University of Pisa and a member of the Italian Parliament for the People's Party.
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