Event in collaboration with the Institute-Institute for International Policy Studies
Vice-Chair, Institute for European Policy Making (Bocconi) Chair, deutsch-französisches Institut Member of the Board, Munich Security Conference Foundation Co-Chair, International advisory panel on biodiversity credits (IAPB). Former Member of the European Parliament, Minister of Defense and deputy governor of the Banque de France.
Chairman of the ISPI Scientific Committee and professor of International Relations at Bocconi University. He is a Member of the Strategic Committee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; of the Europe Policy Group of the World Economic Forum (Davos); of the Board of Directors of LUISS. He edited, among others, "L’ora della verità" (2025), "L’Europa nella età dell’insicurezza" (2024) with A. Colombo and “Il Conflitto senza fine” (2024).
Former Ambassador to USA, Germany and Serbia, he has been Chief of Staff to the Minister for the EU and Advisor to the President of the EC. As Chief Diplomatic Advisor and Sherpa G7/G20 to the PM and Advisor to the President of the Republic he covered the most sensitive security issues. He witnessed in Budapest the dissolution of Warsaw Pact and USSR.
An illustrious concert hall in a building on Via Giuseppe Verdi, which harks back to the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the numerous musical associations (Musikverein) once found in Ljubljana and all the way to Vienna. It is home to the Philharmonic Society of Trento, founded in 1795. It boasts a beautiful organ, dating back to 1906.
