Busy Days for Prodi's Last Week as Professor at Large
October 25, 2013
In addition to meeting with students and faculty members, Prodi will participate in three public events at the Watson Institute.
Romano Prodi
Professor at Large
Romano Prodi, former prime minister of Italy, is a Brown University professor at large. In addition to serving two terms as Italy's prime minister, he has served as president of the European Commission, among other official positions. He is also a distinguished scholar, having served as professor of industrial organization and industrial policy at the University of Bologna's Faculty of Political Science. Prodi earned economics and law degrees from the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan.
Among Prodi's many publications are Governare l'Italia, Manifesto per il cambiamento; L'Italia che vogliamo; Il capitalismo ben temperato; and Un'idea dell'Europa (English ed. Blackwell/Polity, Oxford, 2000).
October 25, 2013
In addition to meeting with students and faculty members, Prodi will participate in three public events at the Watson Institute.
October 10, 2012
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has named Romano Prodi, professor at large at the Institute, to be his Special Envoy for the Sahel region.
May 5, 2011
Italy’s La Stampa recently reported on former Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi’s lectures this semester as Brown professor at large, echoing his themes on the fragility of Europe and the potential benefits of immigration to the European Union. “Somebody has to take responsibility for unpopular decisions and be courageous,” Prodi is quoted as saying in the article.
May 5, 2011
A recent high-level panel explored the social, political, and economic implications of the increasingly fluid wave of global migration, as part of the Transatlantic Dialogues at Brown. Moderated by Ignacio Polanco, president of the Madrid-based PRISA Group of media companies, the speakers discussed the flow of peoples between the Global South and Global North, and also within the regions.
April 14, 2011
Three former leaders of Italy, Austria, and Chile, who have all led progressive parties and movements in their long public careers, discussed the future of the “Next Left” at the Watson Institute this week. Former Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi was joined on Tuesday’s public panel by former president of Chile, Ricardo Lagos, and ex-chancellor of Austria, Alfred Gusenbauer. All three are currently visiting professors at Brown.
April 12, 2011
The President, a documentary airing for the first time this week, looks at the creation of a European president, featuring among its subjects Romano Prodi, the former Italian prime minister and European Commission president. Prodi is currently in residence at the Watson Institute as a Brown professor at large.
October 26, 2010
Today’s political decisions – both in Europe and the United States – are being unduly influenced by tomorrow’s elections, according to professor-at-large and former prime minister of Italy Romano Prodi. “This is a problem shared by all contemporary democratic systems in the short term,” said Prodi, speaking recently at the Institute.