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About the Organisers & Partners

Event Hosts

Assonime www.assonime.it

Assonime – Association of Joint Stock Companies incorporated in Italy – is a long-established business association and think-tank set up by companies in different branches of activities (industry, finance, services and public utilities). Since its establishment in 1910 it has gained a reputation as a leading centre for analysis of national and European regulation and has become a leading advocate of the need to establish well-functioning market institutions.

Its mission is:

• to contribute to a regulatory framework that encourages enterprise and investment;

• to promote the interpretation, adaptation and application of rules governing economic activities so as to improve market functioning;

• to help members to apply existing rules.

Bank of America Merrill Lynch www.bankofamerica.com

Bank of America Merrill Lynch is one of the largest financial institutions in the world, incorporating a leading banking and wealth management franchise and well-positioned corporate and investment banking and capital markets businesses.

Kreab Gavin Anderson www.kreabgavinanderson.com

Kreab Gavin Anderson is a world leading communications consultancy. We provide independent and strategic advice on high-stakes financial, corporate and public affairs communications.
 
With operations in 25 countries, and over 350 highly experienced consultants, we offer communications counsel to the highest levels within companies, organizations, governments and governmental agencies.

Event Organisers

Forum Europe www.forum-europe.com

Based in Cardiff and with offices in Brussels at the heart of the European Union, Forum Europe specialises in EU focussed political and economic conferences and events. These events are organised with clients and partners and aim to progress ideas and actions on important issues, all within a balanced and neutral setting.

Founded by Giles Merritt, columnist for the International Herald Tribune and former Brussels correspondent at the Financial Times and headed by a team of EU events specialists with over 19 years of experience, Forum Europe’s strategic services can maintain and develop your networks at EU level, and also deliver forums where key issues can be aired and debated.

Forum Europe works successfully with businesses, institutions and governments alike and its expertise, through the medium of events, lies in understanding and interpreting the processes and political issues within the EU.

 

Event Partners

Assicurazioni Generali www.generali.com

The Generali Group is one of Europe's largest insurance providers and the biggest European Life insurer, with 2010 total premium income of more than € 73 billion. It is also one of the world's top asset managers with assets totaling over € 470 billion in 2010, and a unique real estate operator with a property portfolio of more than € 25 billion. With 85,000 employees worldwide and 70 million clients in more than 60 countries, the Group occupies a leadership position on Western European markets and an increasingly important place in Eastern Europe and Asia.

ING Belgium SA/NV www.ing.be

ING Belgium SA/NV services all banking customers with a wide range of financial products and via the distribution channel (click & face) of their choice. ING Belgium SA/NV employs 11.189 persons* and is a full subsidiary of ING Group N.V. which services 85 million private, corporate end institutional clients in more than 40 countries in Europe, North America, Latin America, Asia and Australia.

 

* June 2011

Managed Funds Association www.managedfunds.org

The Managed Funds Association (MFA) represents the global alternative investment industry and its investors by advocating for sound industry practices and public policies that foster efficient, transparent, and fair capital markets.  MFA, based in Washington, DC, is an advocacy, education, and communications organization established to enable hedge fund and managed futures firms in the alternative investment industry to participate in public policy discourse, share best practices and learn from peers, and communicate the industry’s contributions to the global economy.  MFA members help pension plans, university endowments, charitable organizations, qualified individuals and other institutional investors to diversify their investments, manage risk, and generate attractive returns.  MFA has cultivated a global membership and actively engages with regulators and policy makers in Asia, Europe, North and South America, and all other regions where MFA members are market participants.

Supporting Sponsors

Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena www.mps.it

Monte dei Paschi di Siena is held to be the oldest bank in the world, and today is one of the main banks in Italy. The Bank operates, also through its subsidiaries, in the various sectors of banking and finance, from traditional banking to special credit to asset management, insurance, and investment banking, with more than 3,000 branches all over Italy and a presence in the world’s major economic and financial centers.

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP www.cgsh.com

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP is a leading international law firm founded in 1946 by lawyers committed to legal excellence, internationalism and diversity. Our clients include multinational corporations, international financial institutions, sovereign governments and their agencies, as well as domestic corporations and financial institutions. Organized and operated as a single, integrated global partnership, Cleary Gottlieb employs more than 1,100 lawyers from more than 50 countries and diverse backgrounds who are admitted to practice in numerous jurisdictions around the world. The firm operates out of fourteen offices located in New York, Washington, Paris, Brussels, London, Frankfurt, Cologne, Rome, Milan, Moscow, Hong Kong, Beijing, Buenos Aires and Sao Paulo.

ENGINEERING www.eng.it

The Engineering Group is the major Italian player in the IT services, with an integrated offering in system & business integration, outsourcing, proprietary solutions and consulting services. Established in1980, the parent company Engineering Ingegneria Informatica is listed in the FTSE Italia Star segment. The Group counts more than 6.500 staff, estimated 2011 revenues between €800-820 mn, 43 offices distributed in Italy, in EU, Brazil and Argentina. Engineering's reference market is represented by medium-large size companies in all market segments, both private clients as well as public entities. Engineering plays a role of leadership in software research and development, coordinating several domestic and international projects through a network of 50 European scientific partners and academic institutions.

eni www.eni.com

eni is a major integrated energy company, committed to growth in the activities of finding, producing, transporting, transforming and marketing oil and gas. It has global operations in 79 countries with outstanding expertise and holds positions of leadership in the primary international markets.
 

eni has adopted a Sustainability model aimed at promoting the respect of people and their rights, of the environment and, more generally, of the widespread interests of communities that reside where eni works. eni guarantees the sustainability of its activities in the long-term providing a coherent framework for innovation development, a risk prevention management strategy as well as considering the stakeholders’ interests through dialogue and the sharing of objectives.

 

Companies listed on the Stock Exchanges are periodically screened to become part of the Sustainability Indexes that signal companies with a good environmental, social and governance performance. In 2011, eni has been included again in the Dow Jones Sustainability World and Europe and the FTSE4Good indexes.

Poste Italiane www.poste.it

Balancing tradition and innovation

Poste Italiane is the largest service-provider company in Italy. Thanks to its extensive presence throughout the country, and the effective integration of its activities, today the company is able to offer integrated products and services in the areas of communication, logistics, financial, insurance and mobile telephony services to individuals, businesses and the public administration. With 14,000 post offices located throughout the country and a team of over 150,000 staff members, the company guarantees services to 37 million customers. Its widespread presence throughout the country, experience and attention towards new technologies make Poste Italiane an important factor for progress and modernisation in Italy.

 

Thanks to its ability to diversify and innovate, it has acquired an international reputation as a successful case history and as a model for development. It is the only European postal company that has recorded a constant growth in volumes and revenue for the last nine consecutive years, with a profitability rate that places it among the top-ranking EU operators.

Media Partners

Debating Europe www.debatingeurope.eu

Friends of Europe and Europe's World, in partnership with the European Parliament, Microsoft and Gallup, are proud to announce an innovative online debate platform that lets YOU submit YOUR policy ideas directly to Europe's leaders on the vital issues shaping our future: Growth, Green, Tech, Global and Future. We put ideas and suggestions straight to influential thinkers and policymakers for their support or criticism. The outcomes will be synthesised into policy recommendations to be presented to Europe's political leaders and summarized in Europe's World.

Europe's World www.europesworld.org

Published every 4 months, Europe’s World is the only independent Europe-wide policy journal, produced in association with some 150-plus leading European think tanks and academic institutions.

Since its launch 5 years ago, Europe’s World has established itself as the premier ideas platform for new thinking on political, economic and social issues.

 

Our 100,000 readers, drawn from politics, business, the media, academia, think tanks and NGOs, are a powerful and influential audience, who value Europe’s World for its thought provoking articles, Europe-wide outlook and lack of national or political bias -  EW - What they say...

To date, over 800 of today’s most respected thinkers and influential leaders have contributed articles firmly strengthening Europe’s World’s reputation as the leading forum for ground-breaking ideas, and proving beyond doubt that great minds don’t think alike.