Special Lecture of Romano Prodi
Future of the Euro
17th Feb 2012，Friday Morning
CEIBS Beijing Campus
Short Bio
Prodi, Romano
Sino-Europe Dialogue Chair, CEIBS
Former Prime Minister of Italy, Former President of European Commission
Prof. Romano Prodi, former Prime Minister of Italy, was appointed as Sino-Europe Dialogue Chair at CEIBS, effective 1 March 2010. CEIBS Sino-Europe Dialogue Chair is supported by Zoomlion. Prof. Romano Prodi twice served as Prime Minister of Italy and also served as President of the European Commission.
Prof. Prodi was born in Scandiano, Italy, in 1939. He received his law degree at the Catholic University of Milan and completed postgraduate work at the London School of Economics. Prof. Prodi began his academic career at the University of Bologna in 1963, where he served as assistant in political economics and professor of industrial organization and industrial policy until 1999. He was also visiting professor at Harvard University and the Stanford Research Institute. In 1981, Prof. Prodi founded Nomisma, the largest Italian economic research society, whose scientific committee he chaired until 1995. In the international literature his name is linked with with Giacomo Becattini, Franco Momigliano and Paolo Sylos Labini, the founders of the "Italian School of Industrial Economics". During his academic and institutional career, Prodi has received several prestigious awards and holds numerous honorary degrees from universities around the world, including Honorary Member of the London School of Economics and Political Science (1989) and the Schumpeter Prize by the International Joseph A. Schumpeter Society (1999).
Prof. Prodi entered politics in 1978, when he was appointed the Italian minister of industry. From 1982 to 1989, he served as chairman of the Institute for Industrial Reconstruction (IRI), at the time Italy's largest holding company. Under his chairmanship, IRI underwent a far-reaching reorganization, embarking on a process of change and preparing its subsidiaries for privatization. Prof. Prodi was called back to the helm of IRI in May 1993 and successfully saw through the privatization of large companies such as Credito Italiano and Banca Commerciale Italiana.
In 1995, Prof. Prodi founded the Ulivo --"The Olive Tree"-- the center-left coalition, which made him its candidate for prime minister in the 1996 elections. Ulivo won the general elections that year and the Prodi government remained in office until 1998. One of its achievements was to secure Italy’s place among the first countries to adopt the euro.
In 1999, Prof. Prodi was appointed president of the European Commission, the executive body of the European Union. During his presidency, the euro was successfully introduced; the Union was enlarged by 25 new countries from central, eastern and southern Europe; and the treaty establishing a constitution for Europe was signed. He served until 2005. In the 2006 parliamentary elections in Italy, Prof. Prodi again led the center-left coalition to victory, and again became prime minister, serving until May 8, 2008. Prof. Prodi is currently president of the Foundation for Worldwide Cooperation and chairman of the UN-AU Panel for Peacekeeping in Africa.
Time: 17th Feb 2012 (Friday Morning)
Venue: CEIBS Beijing Campus（Click to see the map<http://www.ceibs.edu/bjnewcampus/pages/map.html>）
Building 20,Zhongguancun Software Park,8 Dongbeiwang West Road, Haidian, Beijing,P.R.China
Language: Bilingual (Chinese and English)
Agenda
09:00-09:30 Guests sign in
09:30-10:45 Keynote speech, Q&A
Registration
Please send the Application Form to Ms Clara Yang by 15 Feb
Tel ：010-8296 6626
Fax：010-8296 6789
E-mail：yclara@ceibs.edu
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