• Niko Romito

  • Carlo Fontana

  • Maria Teresa Brassiolo

  • Raffaele Squitieri

  • Roger Abravanel

  • Pier Paolo Pandolfi

  • Ginger Lew

Pier Paolo Pandolfi

For the proven ability to interpret and promote the issue of ethics through innovative ways in biomedical research.

Ethic Award

  • Nils Ole Oermann

    For the constant activity of reflection, dissemination and awareness raising on the importance of ethics in economy and politics, not only as a scholar but also in the role of consultant and advisor for companies and institutions all over Europe.

  • Pier Paolo Pandolfi

    For the proven ability to interpret and promote the issue of ethics through innovative ways in biomedical research.

  • Ethics is science

    Benedetto Falsini, one of the main International experts of retinal degenerative disease, retraces the main stages of his career as a researcher: from his early passion for the study of rare ophthalmic diseases – which led him to the United States since his university years – to the discovery of new antioxidant components, derived from Navelli’s saffron and used for a new experimental treatment  of retinopathies.

  • Ethics is storytelling

    Storytelling as the antidote to the collective oblivion on the atrocities backed by the political machine: the anthropologist and director André Singer reflects on the ethic role of storytelling and images, starting from the documentaries "The Act of Killing", on the genocide in Indonesia, and "Night Will Fall" on the extermination by the Nazis.

Speakers

  • Niko Romito

    Michelin two-stars awarded chef from Abruzzo

    The patron of the Royal restaurant in Castel di Sangro. He has received over the years many prestigious awards, including one as Best Chef 2012 and he is known for his ability to revisit in a contemporary way the traditional local cuisine. Recently, he launched an innovative training project for young talent of haute cuisine.

  • Carlo Fontana

    Executive director of the Teatro Regio - Parma

    A leading expert of musical culture in the world, he was superintendent of the Teatro alla Scala in Milan from 1990 to 2005, during one of the most glorious seasons of our greatest lyrical institution. Theatre director, he has actively participated in the life of our institutions as a Senator of the fifteenth legislature.

  • Maria Teresa Brassiolo

    Chairman of Transparency International Italy

    Co-founder and President since 1996 of Transparency International Italy, she directed and developed numerous national and international projects to promote the rule of law and eliminate corruption within the public and private sector, including the implementation and monitoring of the OECD Convention and UNCAC, the European Researches on protection of whistleblowers and the National Integrity System.

  • Raffaele Squitieri

    President of the Italian Corte dei Conti (Court of Auditors)

    Eminent jurist, current President of the Italian Corte dei Conti (Court of Auditors), also chairman of the “Control over the authorities Section", he teaches Public, Constitutional, Administrative law and Public Accounting at the School of Public Administration, at the Higher School for Officers of the Police Force and at LUISS. He was honored with the title of Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.

  • Roger Abravanel

    President of the Insead Council Italy, author of Meritocracy

    Among the most authoritative international experts on merit and former director of McKinsey, he is the author of the "National Plan for the quality and merit" wanted by the Italian Ministry of Education, Universities and Research. He currently chairs for Italy the Insead Council, among the most reputed centers of economic studies in the world. Columnist for the Corriere della Sera, in 2008 he published the bestseller "Meritocracy".

  • Pier Paolo Pandolfi

    Director of Cancer Center, Harvard Medical School

    Internationally renowned geneticist, author of a groundbreaking study on the molecular mechanisms of leukemia, he directs the prestigious Cancer Center of the Harvard Medical School in Boston, which has awarded him the professorship for life. He was recently awarded the "Merit Award" from the National Institute of Health of the United States for outstanding talent and scientific productivity.

  • Ginger Lew

    Former Advisor of the White House Economic Council

    Former chairman of NASDAQ, the New York stock-exchange agency, she has long been the primary representative of the American government for gender mainstreaming policies. Currently, in addition to the position of CEO for Three Oaks Investments LLC, a leading US financial advisory firm, she is a member of the board of the White House National Economic Council, appointed by the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.