Inauguration of the 2017-2018 academic year and awarding of a Laurea Honoris Causa in Management to Edmund S. Phelps, Nobel Prize winner in Economics, 2006, with the participation of the Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni.

Program

10:00 a.m.
Registration

10:30 a.m.
Rector's remarks
Paola Severino

General Manager's remarks
Giovanni Lo Storto

Opening address
Universities as beacons of enlightenment in the 21st century
Anton Muscatelli

Laudatio
Giorgio Di Giorgio 

Proclamation 

Lectio Magistralis
A vital people: key to inclusive prospering and flourishing
Edmund Strother Phelps 

12:20 p.m.
President's conclusion
Emma Marcegaglia 

The event will be held in English and Italian. Simultaneous translation will be available