Giorgio Bassani was an Italian novelist,poet,essayist,editor,and international intellectual.
Paolo Emilio Taviani was an Italian political leader,economist,and historian of the career of Christopher Columbus. He was a partisan leader in Liguria,a Gold Medal of the Italian resistance movement,then a member of the Consulta and the Constituent Council,later of the Italian Parliament from 1948 until his death. Several times minister in the Republic’s governments. He was author of studies on economics and important works on Christopher Columbus,University professor and journalist.
Carlo Scognamiglio Pasini is an Italian economist and politician. He is a university professor in applied economics,and was Chancellor of the LUISS University of Rome (1984–1992). He was President of the Italian Senate from 1994 to 1996 and Minister of Defence from 1998 to 2000.
Lorenzo Bini Smaghi is an Italian economist and banker who served as a member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank from 2005 to 2011. He has been Chairman of the Board of Directors of the SociétéGénérale since 2015.
Gianfranco Pasquino is an Italian political scientist. Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Bologna and Senior Adjunct Professor at SAIS-Europe (Bologna). He studied at the University of Turin under Norberto Bobbio and specialized under Giovanni Sartori at the University of Florence. In his professional life,he has been associated with the University of Florence,Harvard University,University of California,Los Angeles and the School of Advanced International Studies in Washington,DC and Fellow of Christchurch and St Antony's at Oxford and Life Fellow of Claire Hall,Cambridge.
Donatella della Porta is an Italian sociologist and political scientist,who is Professor of political science and political sociology at the Scuola Normale Superiore. She is known for her research in the areas of social movements,corruption,political violence,police and policies of public order. In 2022,she was named a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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.
Piero Boitani is an Italian literary critic.
The Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI) (English:Institute of International Affairs) is an Italian international relations think tank,and non-profit organisation founded in 1965 by Altiero Spinelli. It is ranked among the global top-20 think tanks in the "Foreign Policy and International Relations" category,according to the 2020 Global Go To Think Tank Index.
Paolo Savona is an Italian economist,professor,and politician. He was the Italian Minister of European Affairs from 1 June 2018 until 8 March 2019,his second stint in government after 1993–1994. During the 2010s,Savona became one of the most fervent Eurosceptic economists in Italy.
Orestes Ferrara y Marino,known in Italy as Oreste Ferrara,was an Italian Cuban,who fought for Cuba's independence. He was also an attorney,a journalist,a writer and an entrepreneur who founded one of the most successful newspapers of La Habana,El Heraldo de Cuba.
Attilio Celant,2nd Class / Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic,is an Italian economist,geographer and academic.
Mauro Mellano was an Italian economist and professor at the University of Rome La Sapienza.
Fernando Vianello was an Italian economist and academic. Together with Michele Salvati,Sebastiano Brusco,Andrea Ginzburg and Salvatore Biasco,he founded the Faculty of Economics of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia.
Sergio Fabbrini is an Italian political scientist. He is Head of the Department of Political Science and Professor of Political science and International relations at Libera UniversitàInternazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli in Rome,where he holds the Intesa Sanpaolo Chair on European Governance. He had also the Pierre Keller Visiting Professorship Chair at the Harvard University,Kennedy School of Government (2019/2020). He is the co-founder and former Director of the LUISS School of Government He is also recurrent professor of Comparative Politics at the Institute of Governmental Studies at the University of California at Berkeley.
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.
Alberto V. Febbrajo is an Italian legal scholar and sociologist.
Alberto Quadrio Curzio is an Italian economist. He is Professor Emeritus of Political Economy at UniversitàCattolica del Sacro Cuore,Milan,President Emeritus of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei and President of the International Balzan Foundation "Prize".
Stefano Bartolini is an Italian political scientist and professor at European University Institute in Florence,Italy. He is the author of many books and publications.
Paolo Prodi was an Italian historian and politician.
