Ali Babacan – former Turkish Foreign Minister
António Guterres – current UN Secretary General (since 2017)
Antonio La Forgia – former President of the Emilia-Romagna Region
Ban Ki-moon – former UN Secretary General
Barbara Duden – Politician, scholar, feminist writer
Bell Hooks– Politician, scholar, Feminist writer
Cécile Kyenge – Politician; former Minister for Integration of the Italian Republic of the Letta government
Claudio Scajola – former Italian Minister of the Interior
Danuta Maria Hübner – former Commissioner for Regional Policies in Barroso Commission
Duccio Campagnoli – Former Councilor for Industry and Manufacturing Activities of the Emilia Romagna Region – Former President of BolognaFiere –
Emma Bonino – Italian Radical Party member, Politician, MP, former Foreign Affairs Minister of the Italian Republic in the Letta Government
Fatema Mernissi – Feminist writer Politician, scholar,
Fausto Bertinotti – Politician, former secretary of the Communist Refoundation Party
Gian Carlo Muzzarelli, Mayor of Modena – Former Councilor for Industry and Manufacturing Activities of the Emilia Romagna Region
Gianfranco Fini – Politician; former President of National Alliance; former Speaker of the House,
Giorgio Napolitano – former President of the Italian Republic
Githinji Gitahi – Global CEO of Amref Health Africa
Giuseppe Conte – Italian Premier
José Barroso – former President of the European Commission
Khalida Messaoudi (alias Khalida Toumi) – Algerian Minister of Communication and Culture in 2001. Symbol of the movement for women’s rights and equal opportunities in Islamic countries
Liliana Segre – Italian politician, Holocaust survivor and active Italian Shoah witness
Luigi Di Maio – current Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation in the Italian Government
Mario Raffaelli – President of AMREF Italia
Martha Nussbaum – Feminist writer Politician, scholar,
Massimo D’Alema – Politician – former Italian Foreign Minister
Maurizio Landini – General Secretary of the Italian Trade Union CGIL
Mel Sembler – former US Ambassador to Italy
Michele Bulgarelli – Secretary General of the Italian Trade Union Fiom-Cgil of Bologna
Palma Costi, former President of the Emilia Romagna Regional Legislative Assembly; Former Councilor for Industry and Manufacturing Activities of the Emilia Romagna Region –
Pierluigi Bersani – Politician; former national secretary of the Democratic Party; former President of the Emilia- Region;
Piero Fassino – politician; former national secretary of the Democratic Party (DS)
Renato Brunetta – politician (Forza Italia)
Robin Morgan – Feminist writer Politician, scholar,
Romano Prodi – politician; former Italian Premier; former President of the European Commission
Ronald Spogli – former US ambassador to Italy
Sandra Harding – Feminist writer Politician, scholar,
Sergio Blasi – regional councilor of Puglia Pd, former mayor of Melpignano, Puglia
Sergio Cofferati – politician – former mayor of Bologna; former secretary general of the Italian Trade Union CGIL
Sergio Mattarella – President of the Italian Republic
Simona Caselli – President of Legacoop Reggio Emilia – former Councilor for Agriculture, Hunting and Fishing of the Emilia Romagna Region
Stefano Bonaccini – President of the Emilia-Romagna Region
Susanna Camusso – formerly Secretary General of the Italian Trade Union CGIL (2010 – 2019)
Tommaso Padoa Schioppa – Italian economist and politician
Umberto Veronesi – Italian oncologist – politician. Founder and President of the Umberto Veronesi Foundation
Vasco Errani – former President of the Emilia-Romagna Region
Virginio Merola, Mayor of Bologna
Walter Vitali – former Mayor of Bologna
Zahira Kamal – Palestinian activist and politician of the Palestinian Democratic Union. Former Minister of Women in the Palestinian National Authority.
Annabelle Lucantonio, World Pastry Champion “The Pastry Queen 2018”
Antonino Canavacciuolo – Master Chef
Cher Harris (USA), Pastry Queen 2014 World Pastry Champion
Gabriel Paillasson – Pastry Chef, president Coupe du Monde de la Pâtisserie
Iginio Massari – Pastry Chef,The Master of Italian Pastry Masters
Philippe Rigollot – Pastry Chef, president of Coupe du Monde de la Pâtisserie since 2018
Roberto Rinaldini – Pastry Chef, award-winning Italian pastry chef
Silvia Federica Boldetti – World Pastry Champion “The Pastry Queen 2016”
Sonia Balacchi – World Pastry Champion “The Pastry Queen 2012”
Muhammad Yunus – 2006 Nobel Peace Prize
Rita Levi Montalcini – 1986 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Robert Engle – Nobel Prize in Economics 2003
Shirin Ebadi – Nobel Peace Prize 2003
Wangari Mathai – Nobel Peace Prize 2004
Fabio Alberto Roversi Monaco – former Rector of the University of Bologna
Francesco Ubertini – Rector of the University of Bologna
Francesco Garibaldo – Director at “Claudio Sabattini” Foundation
Ivano Dionigi – former Rector of the University of Bologna
Marco Biagi – Italian jurist. Professor of Labour Law and industrial relations at the University of Modena
Maurizio Cheli, Astronaut
Patrizio Bianchi – Full Professor of Economics and Industrial Policy – coordinator of the Committee of Experts set up by the Minister of Education – former Councilor for Labour and University of the Emilia Romagna Region, former Rector of the University of Ferrara
Pier Ugo Calzolari – former Rector of the University of Bologna
Pierre Lévy – sociologist
Volker Telljohann – senior researcher at IRES Emilia-Romagna
Bebe Vio – world and European champion in Paralympic individual foil
Umberto Pelizzari (Italian freediver – world records in all the existing disciplines of freediving)
Veronica Yoko Plebani – Paralympic athlete
Franco Catania – business manager, production-distribution of some of the main fashion brands (Jacob Cohën, Karl Lagerfeld Denim, Vilebrequin Denim, Hand Picked).
Giorgio Armani – business executive – stylist
Stefano Bonacini – business manager – President of Gaudì
Stefano Saccone – CEO of Woolrich International
Ala Al-Aswani
Alain Mabanckou
Amos Oz
André Schiffrin
Asha Phillips
Assia Djebar
Azza Filali
Bernard-Henri Lévy
Bruce Sterling
Clara Sanchez
Daniel Pennac
Danny Wallace
David Peace
Dominique Manotti
Edgar Morin
Eliette Abécassis
Jake Arnott
Jan Brokken
Janne Teller
Jonathan Coe
Marc Augé
Margaret Atwood
Mathias Malzieu
Mohsin Hamid
Nancy Richler
Paule Marshall
Sharon Draper
Stefano Benni
Suad Amiry
Tahar Ben Jelloun
Vandana Shiva
Veronique Tadjo
Alan Neil (International and Comparative Labour Law professor)
Daniel Susskind
Edgar Parnell
Jacques Rojot (International and Comparative Labour Law professor)
Jeremy Rifkin
John Kenneth Galbraith
Louis Sabourin – economist, sociologist, international cooperation scholar
Manfred Weiss (International and Comparative Labour Law professor)
Marco Biagi (International and Comparative Labour Law professor)
Nassim Taleb
Nelson Barbosa
Nouriel Roubini
Philip McCann
Richard Keegan
Richard Sennett
Robert Engle – Nobel Prize in Economics 2003
Roger Blanpain (International and Comparative Labour Law professor)
Stefano Zamagni
Tiziano Treu (International and Comparative Labour Law professor) (Former Italian Labour Minister)
Several Marketing experts and Gurus, Economists (The House Ambrosetti) including:
Adrian Furnham
Alec Ross
Anantha Duraiappah
Ashira Prossack
Daniele Agiman
David Posen
Eric Axel Zimmer
Giulio Monti
Jan Ardui
John Zimmer
Leandro Herrero
Miquel Lladò
Peresh Shah
Richard Norman
Richard White
Soumitra Dutta
Stefan Stremersch
Andrea Battista – President of Net Insurance; former CEO Eurovita
Andrea Zappia – former CEO of Sky Italia
Carlo Cimbri – CEO Unipol Gruppo SpA and Chairman of UnipolSai Assicurazioni SpA
Claudio Domenicali – CEO of Ducati Motor Holding
James Muir – former President and CEO of Mazda Motor Europe
Lorenzo Cagnoni, President of Italian Exhibition Group Spa (the merger between Rimini Fiera and Fiera di Vicenza)
Luca Cordero di Montezemolo – politician, business executive and entrepreneur. Former president of Ferrari SpA; Former president of Confindustria
Marco Tronchetti Provera – Italian business executive manager. Pirelli Group CEO
Nerio Alessandri – President and founder of Technogym, president of the Wellness Foundation
Oleskiy Lomeyko CEO of PMMTB
Pierluigi Stefanini – Chairman of Unipol Group and Deputy Chairman of UnipolSai Assicurazioni
Sergio Marchionne – former President of FIAT, FCA, CNH, FERRARI
The European House – Ambrosetti – several business executives and marketing gurus
Thierry Porté – entrepreneur in the financial and insurance sector; former President of Eurovita
Valerio De Molli – Managing Partner and CEO of The European House – Ambrosetti
Stefano Boeri
Arata Isozaki
Mordillo Guillermo Menéndez – Argentine cartoonist, illustrator and author of animated cartoons
Albert Uderzo – Didier Conrad – Jean-Yves Ferri – French cartoonists of the series Asterix (Asterix and the Picts (Astérix chez les Pictes), 2013; Asterix and the papyrus of Caesar (Astérix et le papyrus de Cesar), 2015; Asterix and the Italian race (Astérix et la Transitalique), 2017; Asterix and the daughter of Vercingetorix (La Fille de Vercingétorix), 2019
Antoine Simkine – special effects for Amélie’s Fantastic World
Atom Egoyan – film director
Carlo Rambaldi – Oscar for the best special effects for Alien (1979); ET the extra-terrestrial (1982), Oscar Special Achievement Award for the visual effects of King Kong (1976).
Gomorra Cast – SKY television series
Hassan Benjelloun – film director
Jersey Shore Cast – MTV television series
Matt Dillon – actor
Michael Cacoyannis – film director
Michael Dobbs – writer of the novel of the same name from which the television series House of Cards is based
Nabil Radio Dervish – singer
Noa – singer
Patti Smith – rock star
Philip Glass – Contemporary music author, composer, American pianist
Police – Steward Copeland (drummer)
Pupi Avati – film director
Simona Ventura – TV presenter
Stefano Sollima – Italian director and screenwriter (Gomorra; La serie, Romanzo Criminale)
Tim Roth – actor
Alberto Merini
Armando Bauleo
Bernard Aucouturier
Bernard Cramer
Bessel Van der Kolk
Catherine Hamon
Donald Meltzer
Francesca Molfino
Francisco Palacio Espasa
Jacques Hochmann
Louis Sanders
Marie Rose Moro
Meg Harris Melzer
Omar Ndoye
Omar Sylla
Philippe Jeammet
R.Lazar
Romana Negri
Tobie Nathan