Prof. Dr. Riccardo Petrella
Professor emeritus, Catholic University of Louvain
Special Intervention (Day 2)
=== Biography ===
Dr. Petrella was nominated doctor honoris causa at the University of Umeå, University of Roskilde, Catholic University Brussels, the University of Mons, the Polytechnical Institute of Grenoble and the University of Québec in Montréal. Doctor of Political and Social Sciences, an honorary degree from eight universities: in Sweden, Denmark, Belgium (x2), Canada, France (x2), Argentina. Professor emeritus of the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium); President of the Agora des Habitants de la Terre in Brussels (agora-humanite.org). Founder of the Group of Lisbon (Limits to Competition) and of the “The University of the Common Good” (UBC), a non-profit association active in Paris. From 1978 to 1994, he headed the department FAST, Forecasting and Assessment in Science and Technology at the Commission of the European Union in Brussels, and in 2005-2006, he was President of the Apulian Aqueduct. He is the author of numerous books on economics and common goods, namely water.
He worked as a scientific secretary during the years 1967 to 1975, then he became Director of the European Centre for research coordination in Social Sciences in Vienna (Austria). From 1976 to 1978, he was a senior researcher in the International Council of Social Sciences in Paris (France) and also a fellow of the Ford Foundation He led the FAST programme (Forecasting and Assessment in Science and Technology) in the European Commission in the time frame December 1978 – 1994. From 1982 onwards he has been working as a visiting professor and afterwards as a full professor in economics at the University of Louvain, where he taught particularly global economics. Since 2006 he attained the status of professor emeritus. He was also visiting professor at the [VUB Free University of Brussels] from 1999 till 2005, and lectured on human ecology at the Accademia di Architettura de Mendrisio (CH).
In 1991, he established the Lisbon Group. He established the International Committee for a global water contract in 1997 (of which he is the general secretary). Starting 2003, he took the initiative to set up the University of the Public Good, of which the experimental works took off in Italy (water Faculty) and in Belgium (Faculty of the conversion).
Dr. Petrella was nominated doctor honoris causa at the University of Umeå, University of Roskilde, Catholic University Brussels, the University of Mons, the Polytechnical Institute of Grenoble and the University of Québec in Montréal. Doctor of Political and Social Sciences, an honorary degree from eight universities: in Sweden, Denmark, Belgium (x2), Canada, France (x2), Argentina. Professor emeritus of the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium); President of the Agora des Habitants de la Terre in Brussels (agora-humanite.org). Founder of the Group of Lisbon (Limits to Competition) and of the “The University of the Common Good” (UBC), a non-profit association active in Paris. From 1978 to 1994, he headed the department FAST, Forecasting and Assessment in Science and Technology at the Commission of the European Union in Brussels, and in 2005-2006, he was President of the Apulian Aqueduct. He is the author of numerous books on economics and common goods, namely water.
He worked as a scientific secretary during the years 1967 to 1975, then he became Director of the European Centre for research coordination in Social Sciences in Vienna (Austria). From 1976 to 1978, he was a senior researcher in the International Council of Social Sciences in Paris (France) and also a fellow of the Ford Foundation He led the FAST programme (Forecasting and Assessment in Science and Technology) in the European Commission in the time frame December 1978 – 1994. From 1982 onwards he has been working as a visiting professor and afterwards as a full professor in economics at the University of Louvain, where he taught particularly global economics. Since 2006 he attained the status of professor emeritus. He was also visiting professor at the [VUB Free University of Brussels] from 1999 till 2005, and lectured on human ecology at the Accademia di Architettura de Mendrisio (CH).
In 1991, he established the Lisbon Group. He established the International Committee for a global water contract in 1997 (of which he is the general secretary). Starting 2003, he took the initiative to set up the University of the Public Good, of which the experimental works took off in Italy (water Faculty) and in Belgium (Faculty of the conversion).