(ANSA) – ROME, JUL 28 – Scientists and Nobel laureates, entrepreneurs, senior executives, politicians, diplomats, activists, former ministers or representatives of the economy together with the heads of the most important international associations dealing with culture, restoration, museums, cinema. The soft power of the world returns to Venice, on 29 and 30 August, for the third edition of the international think tank founded by Francesco Rutelli and this year the debate is on the great challenges of climate, sustainability, digital, in a world severely tested by the war in Ukraine and the energy and environmental crisis. “No unrealistic horizon, if anything a contribution to dialogue”, the former Minister of Culture and Vice-President of the Council, for years mayor of the capital, enthusiastically premises, a life spent in political commitment, today president of Anica, the association of industrialists of the cinema. “But what has been happening in recent months with the war, and with the return to the field of the tools of the so-called hard power, paradoxically makes a meeting of this type even more important”. Thus, among the new members of the club inspired by the thought launched 15 years ago by the political scientist Joseph Nye jr in the USA will come Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, founder of the largest Indian biotechnology company. And with her there will be Rebeca Grynspan, Secretary General of Unctad (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development) and the diplomat Lord Charles Powell, who was Margaret Thatcher’s chief of staff, side by side with the CEO of ICCR (center for the conservation and restoration of monuments) Webber Ndoro or with Charles Rivkin, leader of the Motion Picture Association Hollywood – Washington, just to name a few of the well-known names including the climatologist Antonio Navarra, president of the Mediterranean European Center on Climate Change, and Marzio Galeotti, president of the Eni Foundation, Enrico Mattei. A super team with “plural sensibilities”, underlines Rutelli, with the prince of Jordan El Hassan Bin, but also the former New Zealand premier Helen Clark or the Chinese Yuan Ding, vice president and Dean of the China Europe Business School in Shanghai, the CEO of General Donnet. (HANDLE).
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