The Ambrosetti Forum organized by The European House – Ambrosetti, a consulting firm – is an annual international economic conference held at Villa d'Este, in the Italian town of Cernobbio on the shores of Lake Como. Since its inception in 1975, the Forum has brought together heads of state, ministers, Nobel laureates and businesspeople to discuss current challenges to the world's economies and societies.
The Forum presents forecasts of economic and geo-political outlooks for the world, Europe and Italy. The forum also analyzes scientific and technological developments and their impacts on the future of business and society.
Media The event takes place behind closed doors.
2010 Edition
Speakers
Angelino Alfano – Minister of Justice, Italy Joaquín Almunia – European Commissioner for Competition José Maria Aznar – former prime minister, Spain Michel Barnier – European Commissioner for Internal Market and Services Maria Bartiromo – anchor, CNBC Fatih Birol – chief economist, IEA (International Energy Agency) Alberto Bombassei – vice president for Industrial Relations, Social Affairs and Welfare, Confindustria, Italy Raffaele Bonanni – secretary general, CISL, Italy Renato Brunetta – Minister for Public Administration and Innovation, Italy George W. Buckley – chairman, president and chief executive officer, 3M, US Fabrizio Capobianco – CEO TOK.tv, president and chairman Funambol Cheng Siwei – dean, Management School, Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; former vice chairman, Standing Committee, National People’s Congress, China Piercamillo Davigo – judge of the Italian Supreme Court of Cassation Ferruccio De Bortoli – editor in chief, Il Corriere della Sera Piero Fassino – member of the Italian Parliament Niall Ferguson – professor of history, Harvard University Mauro Ferrari – president and chief executive officer, The Methodist Hospital Research Institute, Houston Jean-Paul Fitoussi – president, Observatoire Français des Conjonctures Économiques Carl Benedikt Frey – co-director, Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford Mariastella Gelmini – Minister of Education, University and Research, Italy Máire Geoghegan-Quinn – European Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science Yasuchika Hasegawa – president and CEO, Takeda Pharmaceutical, Japan Abraham Heifets – co-founder and CEO, Atomwise, US Huang Jing – visiting professor, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore Pietro Ichino – Member of the Senate, Italy Harold Kroto – Nobel laureate for Chemistry; Francis Eppes Professor of Chemistry, Florida State University Christine Lagarde – Minister of Economy, Industry and Employment, France Anne Lauvergeon – CEO, Areva; France Yves Leterme – prime minister, Belgium Enrico Letta – Member of the Italian Parliament Li Yuguang – deputy director, State Intellectual Property Office of the People’s Republic of China Edison Liu – executive director, Genome Institute of Singapore Emma Marcegaglia – president, Confindustria, Italy Roberto Maroni – Minister for Internal Affairs, Italy Mario Monti – president, Bocconi University, Italy Kenneth P. Morse – member, National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship (U.S. Department of Commerce); founding managing director, MIT Entrepreneurship Center; chair in Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Competitiveness, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands Amre Moussa – secretary general, League of Arab States Wolfgang Munchau – associate editor, Financial Times Giorgio Napolitano – president of the Italian Republic – live, in videoconference Joaquín Navarro-Valls – president of advisory board, Campus Bio-Medico University, Rome; president, Telecom Italia Foundation Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa – president, Notre Europe, France Corrado Passera – managing director and CEO, Intesa Sanpaolo, Italy Shimon Peres – president, State of Israel Charles David Powell – House of Lords, UK :it:Federico Rampini – correspondent from the US, La Repubblica Marco Reguzzoni – Member of the Italian Parliament Jonas Ridderstråle – visiting professor, Ashridge Business School (UK); writer, Sweden Gianni Riotta – editor-in-chief, Il Sole 24 Ore, Italy Sergio Romano – columnist, Corriere della Sera, Italy Nouriel Roubini – professor of economics, Stern School of Business, New York University, US Card. Camillo Ruini – president of the Cultural Project Committee, Italian Episcopal Conference (CEI) Elena Salgado – Minister for the Economy and Finance, Spain Wolfgang Schüssel – former federal chancellor, Austria Hans-Werner Sinn – professor of economics and public finance, LMU Munich; director of CES-Center for Economic Studies (LMU Munich); president, Ifo Institute for Economic Research, Germany Peter Sutherland – president, Goldman Sachs International, UK Antonio Tajani – vice-president, European Commission and European Commissioner for Industry and Entrepreneurship Giulio Tremonti – Minister for the Economy and Finance, Italy Jean-Claude Trichet – president, European Central Bank Edwin Truman – senior fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics, US Matti Vanhanen – former prime minister, Finland Yanis Varoufakis – Finance Minister of Greece Umberto Veronesi – director, European Institute of Oncology Jimmy Wales – founder, Wikipedia Geert Wilders – Ultra right wing member of parliament, the Netherlands
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