On December 12, 2019, the event titled “THE SUSTAINABILITY OF UTOPIAS” took place at the Fondazione Corriere della Sera, featuring Giacomo Poretti | Miriam Martinelli | Lia Quartapelle | Alessio Rocca | Alessandro Rosina, with Nicola Saldutti as moderator.
Conferences are one of the main “public” moments of the Fondazione Pesenti, which have featured the participation of the most authoritative representatives from academia, institutions, media, and civil society (from Nobel laureates in economics Stiglitz and Spence, to former governor of the Indian Central Bank Raghuram Rajan, to figures like Alex Zanardi). Since 2018, Fondazione Pesenti has established a prestigious partnership with Fondazione Corriere, aimed at promoting current topics with increasing effectiveness and to a broader audience (not only geographically).
The ambition of this event is to explore how to provide a structured response to the demands raised by the new generations—from the environmental alarm sounded by Greta Thunberg (recently named
“Person of the Year” by Time magazine, which since 1927 every December has featured on its cover the person who has most influenced the previous 12 months) to the new movements calling for a more inclusive and community-oriented vision.
How can we follow up on movements, protests, and actions that have awakened direct participation and mobilized especially young people toward “higher” ideals?
PIERGAETANO MARCHETTI
President of Fondazione Corriere della Sera
President of Fondazione Corriere della Sera since 2004. Full professor of Industrial and Commercial Law at the University of Parma and then at Bocconi University in Milan, where he is currently professor emeritus. Author of numerous publications on competition law, corporate law, securities markets, industrial law, privatizations, and publishing. He was part of the commission that drafted the Consolidated Law on Finance and for the general reform of corporate law. He was also part of the Advisory and Guarantee Committee for privatizations and is a member of the Technical Committee for the Code of Self-regulation of listed companies. A notary, he was chairman of the board of directors of RCS MediaGroup, member of the boards of Generali, Bpm, Saipem, and statutory auditor at Mediobanca. Piergaetano Marchetti is co-author of the book Europa nonostante tutto (La nave di Teseo, 2019).
CARLO PESENTI
President of Fondazione Pesenti
President of Fondazione Cav. Lav. Carlo Pesenti, dedicated to non-profit projects of social, economic, technological, scientific, and cultural innovation. Since 1999 he has been a member of the Board of Directors of Italmobiliare, an investment holding listed on the Milan Stock Exchange. In 2001 he became General Manager and in May 2014 was appointed CEO. After presiding over the Commission that introduced the Confindustria reform, he is a permanent member of the General Council of the confederation of which he was Vice President (2014-2016). Since 2017, he has been a member of the Advisory Board of Assolombarda. Board member of ISPI. He is Co-President of the Italy-Thailand Business Forum. He is also a board member of Fondazione San Patrignano.
GIACOMO PORETTI
Comedian, actor, and screenwriter
Giacomo Poretti is an actor, comedian, and director. Born into a working-class family from Legnano, he became passionate about theater through his local parish. He left his surveying studies to work in a factory as a metalworker, and at 18 he started working as a nurse in a hospital. After participating in various TV programs, in 1989 he wrote a show directed by Giovanni Storti. In 1991, convinced by Giovanni, he debuted together with Aldo Baglio and Storti at the Caffè Teatro in the province of Varese. From that moment on, the story of the comic trio Aldo, Giovanni & Giacomo began, starring in hugely successful TV shows, theatrical performances, and 10 box office hit films. Since 2012, Giacomo has dedicated himself more intensely to writing. He is the author of two bestsellers published by Mondadori, Alto come un vaso di gerani (2012) and Al paradiso è meglio credere (2015), and together with Aldo and Giovanni, he co-authored Tre uomini e una vita. La nostra (vera) storia raccontata per la prima volta (Mondadori, 2016), curated by Michele Brambilla. He was a columnist for La Stampa from 2012 to 2016 and writes for Avvenire and Corriere della Sera.
MIRIAM MARTINELLI
Student at the Agricultural Technical Institute of Noverasco d’Opera, Italian activist of Fridays for Future
She is an activist of the Fridays for Future movement and is nicknamed by the media as “the Italian Greta,” although she dislikes “the exploitation by the press. The focus should be on the issue, not on the personalities.” Miriam Martinelli is 16 years old and studies at an agricultural technical institute. “I skip school every Friday since February 1. I believe in the cause. I ask the government to declare a climate and ecological emergency and to listen to all these people: they cannot keep ignoring us, they must listen to science.” She has been interested in the environment and social issues since she was a child, but Greta Thunberg inspired her to take to the streets. She is one of the minds behind the climate strikes organized by Fridays for Future in Milan, events that “invaded” the city and saw nearly 200,000 young people gather in Piazza Duomo.
LIA QUARTAPELLE
Member of Parliament
Deputy since 2013, she served as secretary of the Foreign Affairs Commission and was a member of the national leadership of the Democratic Party until her appointment as group leader on February 22, 2016. In March 2018, she was re-elected to the Chamber of Deputies in the Milan East constituency. In this legislature, besides again serving as PD group leader on the Foreign Affairs Commission, she was appointed Head of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the National Secretariat. She holds a Master’s in Economics from SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies) in London and a PhD in Development Economics from the University of Pavia. Since 2009, she has been a researcher at ISPI (Institute for International Political Studies) in Milan. She is a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and the Italian council of the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR). Since 2018, she has been part of the European Young Leaders (EYL40) program promoted by Friends of Europe.
ALESSIO ROCCA
President of the Student Council, Engineering student at Politecnico di Milano
A Mathematical Engineering student at Politecnico di Milano, President of the Student Council and representative in the Academic Senate. He was an “unexpected” protagonist at the inauguration of the Politecnico’s academic year in November 2019, with a speech that resonated in the national press. In the presence of Rector Ferruccio Resta and Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, he expressed concerns about a system that does not protect the constitutional right to education, a country that must “clearly understand that university and research are the fulcrum around which societal improvement revolves.” However, the system foresees “the strange category of ‘eligible but non-beneficiary’ students, to whom the state replies: yes, I know you can’t study due to lack of family resources, but I cannot help you.”
ALESSANDRO ROSINA
Full Professor of Demography, Università Cattolica di Milano
University professor and essayist. He studies demographic transformations, social changes, and the diffusion of innovative behaviors. Full professor of Demography and Social Statistics at the Faculty of Economics at Università Cattolica in Milan, where he also directs the LSA research center (Laboratory of Applied Statistics to Economic and Business Decisions). He is president of the InnovarexIncludere association and coordinates the main Italian survey on new generations (“Rapporto giovani” by the G. Toniolo Institute). He has served as an expert on Istat and ministerial commissions. He has many scientific and popular publications to his name. Among his numerous books are Non è un paese per giovani. L’anomalia italiana: una generazione senza voce (with E. Ambrosi, Marsilio, 2009) and L’Italia che non cresce. Gli alibi di un paese immobile (Laterza, 2013). He writes or has written for various national newspapers and political-cultural magazines.
NICOLA SALDUTTI
Head of Economics Corriere della Sera
Born in Naples on March 5, 1966, graduated in Political Science at Federico II, attended the Gino Palumbo journalism school, professional journalist since 1990. He has worked at Corriere della Sera since 1989, starting with Corriere Soldi, then moving to the daily newspaper pages where he currently serves as Head of Economics. He has covered topics from privatizations to the evolution of the banking system and the main financial events of the Italian stock market.
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