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 The Future of Europe From the Enlargement to the New Lisbon Rules

Friday, April 9 2010 4:15 - 5:30 pm
Reception to Follow: 5:30 - 6:30 pm

Romano Prodi, former Prime Minister of Italy and President of the European Commission, is returning to New England for his academic duties as professor-at-large at Brown University. Romano Prodi is an Italian politician and statesman. He served as President of the Council of Ministers (prime minister) of Italy twice, from May 1996 to October 1998 and from May 2006 to May 2008. He was also the tenth President of the European Commission from 1999 to 2004. Dr. Prodi ran in 1996 as The Olive Tree candidate, winning the general election and serving as Prime Minister of Italy until 1998. On October 14, 2007, he became the first President of the Democratic Party upon foundation of the party. Dr. Prodi was selected as president of the African Union-UN peacekeeping panel by United Nations Secretary- General Ban Ki Moon on September 12, 2008. On February 6, 2009, he was appointed Professor-at-Large at the Watson Institute for International Studies of Brown University. Dr. Prodi completed his secondary education at the Liceo Ludovico Ariosto in Reggio Emilia, and studied at the Catholic University of Milan, where he took a degree in Law with distinction in 1961, presenting a dissertation on protectionism in the development of Italian industry.