Association
The non- profit Association performs the following activities:
- To develop, to facilitate and to promote economic and trade relations between Italy and UAE;
- To promote the art, technology, culture, products, the art of living and the Italian creativity;
- To promote and to carry out studies, seminars, conferences, programs, communications and media relations, events, initiatives in cultural, scientific, social and economic fields in order to disseminate the italian knowledge and image into the United Arab Emirates and the UAE ones in Italy;
- To coordinate and organize italian events and exhibitions in the UAE;
- To coordinate and organize UAE events and exhibitions in Italy;
- To involve political, economic, social and cultural environments, of Italy and UAE, examinating various aspects of relations between the two countries, to their development and improvement;
- To create Italy-United Arab Emirates Business Council in order to promote a wider economic and industrial cooperation between the two countries;
On the basis of the work done jointly, the Business Council proposes to identify:
- The possible areas and forms of cooperation (Industrial field and services) to support the agreements development and joint ventures;
- The barriers that hinder the bilateral development of investments and the opportunities offered by respectives "Country Systems".
Within the respectives business communites, the Business Council besides, aims to:
- To establish a reflection’s site and experience’s exchange lived by Italian and UAE entrepreneurs interested in broadening and deepening business relationships with partners of the other country;
- To promote the deeper knowledge of the United Arab Emirates among the Italian companies and seize the same time, their needs for a more effective cooperation’s development with UAE ones.
Directive Council
LUCA BARBARESCHI Chairman
Current Positions
Parliamentarian since 2008
Vice president of Transposrt and Comunication Commission since 2008
Member of Fondazione Festival del Cinema di Roma Board of Directors since 2008
Responsible for artistic contents for H3G’s TV channel since 2008
Career/Memberships/Positions/Other Activities
Vice President of APT (TV producers association) (2003-2005).
Artistic Director of Teatro di Latina (2003-2005).
Member of Territorial Council of Ente Teatrale Italiano (2003-2204 &2005)
Artistic Director of Teatro Eliseo (2001-2002).
2000-2001-2002 Artistic Director of Oltremanica – International Playwriters Festival (2000-2001-2002).
Member of Board of Directors of Piccolo Teatro D’Europa
Member of Board of Directors of I.M.A.I.E.
Member of Censorship Commission
Juror at David di Donatello Festival
Juror at European Film Academy
H.E. SHEIKHA LUBNA BINT KHALID AL QASIMI
Co-Chairman Minister of Foreign Trade of the UAE
GIUSEPPE CERBONE Vice President
Current Positions
Founder and Vice-president of PuntoIt a non profit organization for promoting Internet Association EAU-Italy
Present CEO and General Manager of ANSA Ansa (www.ansa.it) is the world’s forth largest news agency since 2008.
Career/Memberships/Positions/Other Activities
Vice-president of the Italian Institute for Technologies active since 2005, IIT (www.iit.it) is a Foundation controlled by the Italian Ministries of Economics and Research with the goal of creating and delivering advanced technology. IIT operates thru its laboratories (the largest single-site in Europe) and a network of affiliated international top research institutions (2006 – 2007).
CEO and General Manager of Il Sole 24 Ore Group one the largest European multimedia publishing group (2003 – 2005).
CEO and General Manager of ANSA (1998 – 2002).
Professor at the University of Aquila (Italy) of “Economics and Management of Publishing Companies” (1999 – 2002).
General Manager at Il Sole 24 Ore of the Financial Information Division and Head of the Multimedia Business Unit for Professional Publishing (1995 – 1998).
Head within STET, the former italian Telecommunication Group, of a multimedia publishing business unit (1992 – 1995).
Ph.D. Student in artificial intelligence in the USA, teacher at Oregon State University, contractor at NASA Ames, owner of a software company (1985 – 1992).
Employed at multimedia software company of the oil group ENI (1982 – 1985).
Academic Qualifications
Studies Ph.D. in Computer Science Oregon State University, OR (USA) BS in Computer Science University of Salerno (Italy)
LUIGI GAMBARDELLA Counsellor
Current Positions
Vice President Relations with International Institutions - Telecom Italia
Career/Memberships/Positions/Other Activities
Ran the regulatory and Institutional affairs for Olivetti (1996 - 1999).
Joined the Telecom Italia Group, in charge of relations with the National Regulatory Authority in 1991.
Member of the Executive Board of ETNO -European Telecommunications Network Operators' Association. Chairman of the General Assembly.
President of EUBrasil (European Association for the development of the relationship between Europe and Brazil)
President of Puntoit
Member of the Board of the European American Business Council
Member of the Board of the European Internet Foundation
Member of the BIAC - Business and Industry Advisory Committee - at the OECD
Academic Qualifications
Graduated from Bocconi University in Milan
Post graduate - College of Europe
NICOLA MARTINELLI General Secretary
Current Positions
Director and founding partner of strategic corporate consulting firm Sinapsi
Career/Memberships/Positions/Other Activities
Business Development Manager for KPNQWest Italia (2005-2006).
Business Development Manager for Tiscali Spa (2003-2005)
Senior Consultant with the Franco Bernabé Group (2001-2003).
Worked for Netscalibur Italia (2000-2003).
Participated in the start-up of Grapes E-Vision Consulting
Academic Qualifications
Graduated from Università degli Studi in Milan with a law degree .
Master in Business Administration programme at Simon Graduate School of Business in Rochester, New York