Event in collaboration with the l’Ispi-Istituto per gli studi di politica internazionale
Expert in international business development, with a focus on SEA, US and China. He deals with the global labour market and international skills, with a focus on youth distress. He teaches at the MIB 'Executive Class - Asia' at the Cattolica in Milan and will be a lecturer at the BBS in Bologna in the course 'Internationalization of Companies’.
Michele Geraci, Italian economist and politician, he focuses on foreign trade, investments, USA-EU-China relations, the Silk Road, Artificial Intelligence and other current topics, such as sanctions against Russia and US tariffs. Former Undersecretary of State at the Ministry for Economic Development and was responsible for Foreign Trade. Adjunct Professor of Finance at New York University Shanghai and Honorary Professor at Peking University.
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).
Giada Messetti lived in China for a long time. A sinologist and author of television and radio programs for Rai, Mediaset, and La7. She wrote, and hosted the TV program "CinAmerica," available on Raiplay. For Mondadori, she published the trilogy on China: "Nella testa del Dragone" (2020), "La Cina è già qui" (2022), and "La Cina è un’aragosta" (2025).
With marvellous frescoes and crenelated towers, Buonconsiglio is the most important castle in Trentino. Having served as the seat of the Prince-Bishops of Trent for centuries, today the castle is home to the provincial art and archaeology collections and the famous Torre Aquila, whose walls are frescoed with the renowned “Ciclo dei Mesi” (“Cycle of the Months”), an international Gothic masterpiece. A number of Festival dell’Economia events will take place in its Sala Gerola, which seats 110 people.
