Riccardo petrella biography

Biography.
Riccardo Petrella is an Italian political scientist and economist; he has a doctorate in political sciences from the University of Florence).
Riccardo Petrella is an Italian political scientist and economist; he has a doctorate in political sciences from the University of Florence.

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Prof. Dr. Riccardo Petrella

Professor emeritus, Catholic University of Louvain

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=== Biography ===
Dr. Petrella was nominated doctor honoris causa at the University of Umeå, University of Roskilde, Catholic University Brussels, the University of Mons, the Polytechnical Institute of Grenoble and the University of Québec in Montréal. Doctor of Political and Social Sciences, an honorary degree from eight universities: in Sweden, Denmark, Belgium (x2), Canada, France (x2), Argentina. Professor emeritus of the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium); President of the Agora des Habitants de la Terre in Brussels (agora-humanite.org). Founder of the Group of Lisbon (Limits to Competition) and of the “The University of the Common Good” (UBC), a non-profit association active in Paris. From 1978 to 1994, he headed the department FAST, Forecasting and Assessment in Science and Technology at the Commission of the European Union in Brussels, and in 2005-2006,

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Ricardo Petrella

(Italy, 1941)

Economist and political scientist. Councilor of the European Union, professor of globalization and information society at the University of Leuven and professor at Europa College Bruges. Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of Umeå, University of Roskilde, Catholic University Brussels, University of Mons, Polytechnical Institute of Grenoble and the University of Québec. Visiting professor at the VUB (Free University of Brussels) between 1999 and 2005. Professor of Human Ecology at the Accademia di Architettura de Mendrisio in Switzerland.

Founder in 1991 of the Lisbon Group. He is one of the founders of the International Committee for a Global Water Contract. He has chaired the Association for the European University of the Environment. He has been secretary general of the Italian committee for the development of social sciences and director of the European Center for Research in Social Sciences of UNESCO.

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Riccardo Petrella

Italian political scientist and economist (born 1941)

Riccardo Petrella (born on 5 August 1941 in La Spezia) is an Italian political scientist and economist; he has a doctorate in political sciences from the University of Florence). Currently professor emeritus at the University of Louvain, he participates in a tradition that unites Christianity, personalism and solidarity principles.^[1] In 1991, he founded the Lisbon Group, which was composed of 21 academic, business, media and cultural decision-makers, so as to enhance the critical analyses of the current globalization. He is also a member of the World Social Forum and the Porto Alegre Manifesto.

Biography

Petrella was nominated doctor honoris causa at the University of Umeå, University of Roskilde, Catholic University Brussels, the University of Mons, the Polytechnical Institute of Grenoble and the University of Québec in Montréal. He worked as a scientific secretary during the years 1967 to 1975, then he became Director of the European Centre for research coordination in Social Scie