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.
Enrico Giovannini is an Italian economist,statistician and academic,member of the Club of Rome. Since February 2021,he has been serving as Minister of Infrastructure and Sustainable Mobility in the Draghi Government. From April 2013 to February 2014,he served as Minister of Labour and Social Policies in the Letta Government. From 2009 to 2013,he held the office of President of the Italian National Institute of Statistics (Istat).
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.
Giovanni Orsina is a full professor of Contemporary History at LUISS Guido Carli University in Rome. His main fields of research and teaching are the history of political parties,comparative history of European political systems and the history of journalism. For the academic year 2008/2009 he was director of the new Master in European Studies programme.
Sabino Cassese is an Italian jurist,former minister for the public function in the Ciampi government (1993–1994),and judge of the Constitutional Court of Italy (2005–2014).
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.
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.
Ignazio Visco is an Italian economist and central banker and Governor of the Bank of Italy fromn 2011 to 2023.
Luca Serianni was an Italian linguist and philologist.
Stefano Rodotà was an Italian jurist and politician.
Valeria Sannucci has been Deputy Governor and member of the Governing Board of the Bank of Italy and of the joint Governing Board of the Insurance Supervisory Authority (IVASS).
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.
Mauro Canali is a full professor of contemporary history at the University of Camerino in Italy. He is considered to be one of the most important scholars of the events leading to the crisis of the liberal Italian state and the rise of fascism. He has also researched and published extensively on the totalitarian structure of Mussolini's regime,its repressive mechanisms and its system of informants. He studied under Renzo De Felice,and has published in the Journal of Modern Italian Studies,the Italian dailies la Repubblica and Cronache di Liberal.
The Premio Friuli Storia is an annual Italian literary award established in 2013 to promote standards of excellence in the writing of history books for a general readership. It is the only national Italian literary prize for non-fiction which entrusts the selection of the winner to a committee of non-specialist readers.
Claudio De Vincenti is an Italian politician,economist and university professor.
Chiara Frugoni was an Italian historian and academic,specialising in the Middle Ages and church history. She was awarded the Viareggio Prize in 1994 for her essay,Francesco e l'invenzione delle stimmate.
Enrico Comba was an Italian historian and anthropologist,teacher of anthropology of religion at the University of Turin.
Gian Piero Brunetta is an Italian film critic,film historian,and academic.
Matteo Pizzigallo was an Italian essayist and historian. He attended La Sapienza University in Rome and graduated in 1972.
