SPEAKERS

Full Professor of Business Organization at the University of Bologna and Dean of BBS. Member of the Board of Trustees of the EFMD, Founding Chair of the Emba Consortium for Global Business Innovation. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of Ferrarelle SpA and Snam. He also is a Guest Professor at Nankai University (Tianjin, China) and at Mirbis (Moscow, Russia).

President of EFMD Global. He has served as Dean of KIMEP University and Director of the HEC Institute for Central and Eastern Europe. Since 1996, he has been teaching at HEC Graduate School of Management in Paris. He sits on the Boards of EIASM, CEIBS, and the Global Foundation for Management Education. In 2014, he was awarded the Legion of Honour for his contribution to higher education and research.

With over 30 years of international experience in the automotive and motorsport industries, Stefano Domenicali began his career at Ferrari in 1991. He went on to lead the Scuderia as Team Principal from 2008 and represented the company on the F.I.A. World Motorsport Council, where he now serves as President of the Single-Seater Commission. He has held top executive positions at AUDI AG and Automobili Lamborghini before being appointed President and CEO of Formula 1 in 2021.

Rector of the University of Bologna from 2021. Full Professor in Agricultural Machinery and Mechanisation at the University of Bologna since 2016, an Associate Professor from 2010 to 2016, and Researcher from 2000 to 2010. Ph.D. in Materials Engineering at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia.

Italian politician, economist, professor, public administrator, and business executive. He served as Prime Minister of the Italian Republic from 1996 to 1998 and from 2006 to 2008. From 1999 to 2004, he was President of the European Commission. Romano Prodi is also President of the Advisory Board of Bologna Business School.