Carlo De Benedetti
Carlo De Benedetti (born 14 November 1934) is an Italian industrialist, engineer and publisher. He is both an Italian and naturalized Swiss citizen.
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De Benedetti is chairman of the Rodolfo De Benedetti Foundation (Fondazione Rodolfo Debenedetti) in Milan, which he founded in 1998 in memory of his father. It promotes research into economic policy decisions regarding the labor market and welfare systems in Europe.[1][2]
Background
- In the 1980s, along with other leading business figures, he founded the European Round Table of Industrialists, of which he was vice president until 2004.
- In 1997 he created the Gruppo Editoriale L'Espresso (L'Espresso Editorial Group),[3] by merging the L'Espresso and La Repubblica editorial groups. Carlo Caracciolo was appointed president of the group. However, Carlo De Benedetti assumed the presidency in 2006, after the death of Caracciolo.[4] On 26 January 2009, at a press conference, De Benedetti announced his decision to retire from all his executive positions in the CIR group, keeping only - at the request of the Board of Directors - the position of Chairman of the Espresso Group. All the executive positions in the CIR group were given to the current Chief Executive, Rodolfo De Benedetti.[5]
- Carlo De Benedetti has often been identified with Italian centre left politics.[6] He has a long-standing feud with Silvio Berlusconi, and his L'Espresso editorial group currently publishes the main centre-left-leaning Italian newspaper (La Repubblica) and newsmagazine (L'Espresso). He has been called a "foe of Berlusconi" by the Wall Street Journal.[5]
References
- ↑ "Profile: Carlo De Benedetti", Festival of Economics of Trento, 2012
- ↑ www.frdb.org Fondazione Rodolfo DeBenedetti - Highlights.
- ↑ FUSIONE L' ESPRESSO - REPUBBLICA 'AVREMO PIU' RISORSE PER CRESCERE'. Archivio - la Repubblica.it.
- ↑ Archived copy. Retrieved 2010-01-30.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Archived copy. Retrieved 2010-01-30.
- ↑ De Benedetti: imprenditore sfavillante e "nemico" di Berlusconi - Il Sole 24 ORE.
