In the name Professor Francesco Vigliarolo, the organising committee of CFBA-2024 has installed an award in the name of “UNESCO Chair Prof. Francesco Vigliarolo Award for Computational Financial Model for Ethical Finance ” from the year 2024. Professor Francesco Vigliarolo is associated with Interscience Research Network from very beginning and he has contributed a lot to the efforts of Interscience Research Network.
CFBA-2024 will announce a best paper award. The winner of the best paper award shall receive a citation and reimbursement of the registration fee towards the paper.

Short Bio-data of Professor Francesco Vigliarolo

Francesco Vigliarolo is a prof. holder of regional economics at the Catholic University of La Plata and social economist. Ph.D. in Social Sciences, specialization in economic sociology and Master's degree in sustainable development. He is also an Associate Researcher at the CESOT (Center for the Study of Sociology of Work) of the University of Buenos Aires. At the National University of La Plata he has been Director of the Free Chair in “Economic Systems and Human Rights” which he transformed into a UNESCO Chair that he currently coordinates. From 2008 to 2015 he has worked at the University of San Martin where he promoted and projected the first Master funded entirely with European funds in “Democratization and Human Rights”. Before moving to Argentina to study social responses to the financial crisis of 2001, in Italy he worked at the University of Ferrara where he was coordinator of some Master's degrees, including Social Economy and Non-Profit Organizations and Social Economy and International Cooperation. , serving as Professor of Social Economy and Methodology and technique of social research. Always in Italy, he has also been Director of CIPSI, a Federation of 45 NGOs present in more than 60 countries around the world. With his research, he is interested in local development processes as the construction of territorial identities that imply the affirmation of rights (ontological reason) through the strengthening of associative and democratic forms of production. In this direction, he bases what he calls an “economic phenomenology” that aims to observe the economy from the relationship between subjects and materiality that presupposes “functions, ideas, concepts” and the affirmation of the “relational rights of a democratic society.” , which defines an ontological reason as opposed to utilitarian reason. He published several books and scientific articles where he develops concepts such as “ethical social capital”, “socialization and economic democratization”, “demand for people's rights”, “meso-economics” and “the principles of economic phenomenology”. Among his latest books are “The economy is a social phenomenon. Principles of economic phenomenology” (2019) published with Eudeba, “Lupi e agnelli. Societá capitaiste e vie d'uscita” (2017) published with Jaca Book.

Prof. Giulio Tagliavini, Professore di I fascia
Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Aziendali

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Prof. TAGLIAVINI GIULIO is a Full Professor of Capital Markets and Financial Intermediation (oppure Banking and Finance)- Parma University, Teachers coordinator of Finance and Risk Management specialistic curriculum, Finance and Development Master President - Previous jobs and academic roles: Economics Department Director, Rector Assistant, Associate Professor - Parma University, Associate Professor - Lecce University, Lecturer - Parma University, young research unit member - Bocconi University, Milano, SDA Bocconi trainer.
He has developed the scientific curriculum in the field of the economy of the financial intermediation. He has dealt with varied themes connected to the finance of small and medium firms, with attention to the theoretical profiles and to problems of empirical investigation. The studies already developed have assembled on the profile of the credit evaluation, on the general and methodological profiles of the evaluation of the cost of capital, on the characteristics of the useful financial services to help firms development, on the collateralized finance problems. Further investigations have been done in the non-banking intermediation area, in respect with leasing and consumer credit products. In this area, he has developed various studies about evaluation of leasing tax advantage and risk, and about management framework for the consumer credit sector. He has worked in the field of finance for development, investment policies and debt policies of private operators.

Massimo Franchi
Senior Research Fellow, Department of Law
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia

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Massimo Franchi is strategic consultant for multinational organisations. At the University of Parma he is a member of the Laboratory of Market Law and New Technologies (DiMeTech) and was a junior and senior research fellow, witness and adjunct professor in the supplementary course of Political Risk in the FRIM master’s degree. At the University of Calabria, he is an adjunct professor at the II level Master in Intelligence and a member of the Intelligence Lab. At the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, he is a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Law. He is an adjunct professor at the ITS Tech & Food Foundation. Lecturer for international military and economic police organisations, he is enrolled in the SNA didactic register at the PCM for public management and digital innovation. Director of the Winter School of Geopolitics broadcast on “Stroncature”. He is the author of the book “Reflections on responsible management” and co-author of the books “Economic warfare” and “Foreign direct investment and economic intelligence”.

Prof. Marco Piccolo
President Ethical Finance Foundation, Florence

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Marco Piccolo is one of the leading experts and militants of ethical finance today in the world. From the experience of the civil service (January 1980 – March 1981) he embarked on a path of continuous search for coherence in choices beteween the economic field (work, consumption, savings, etc.) and those relating to the values, social and environmental dimensions. This has made it possible to live the experience of ethical finance, fair trade and more generally of social enterprise from the beginning, as a volunteer/customer/saver and then as a professional operator in many of these areas. He was also trained in the associations world, Agesci, and trade unions, of which he later became trainer in both. In 1989 it cooperated for the establishment of CTM MAG (ethical finance institution for the development of fair trade) which then, in 1994, launched the Ethical Bank project, first with the association with the Ethical Bank, then in 1995 with the cooperative towards Banca Etica and finally in 1999 with the opening of Banca Popolare Etica, as we know it today. He has been Vice Director of Banca Etica for many years and is currently President of the Ethical Finance Foundation based in Florence. He has collaborated with Universities and various institutions, publishing various contributions on ethical finance and fair trade.

Prof. Tonino Perna
University of Messina

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Prof. Tonino Perna is an emeritus professor of economic sociology at the University of Messina and a columnist for the Manifesto and the Quotidiano del Sud . Since 2005 he has been part of the International Scientific Committee on Fair Trade coordinated by the Department of Social Sciences of the University of Montreal. From 2000 to 2005 he was president of the Aspromonte National Park. In this capacity he has, among other things, experimented with a fire prevention system which has become a model at European level. He also had the State Polygraphic Institute mint the first local currency (Ecoaspromonte) that was in circulation in Italy. In 1998 he conceived and coordinated the design of the Ecolandia park, an environmental play-technological park inspired by the myths of Magna Graecia. From 1998 to 2002 he was president of the Ethics Committee of the Banca Popolare Etica di Padova. In 1999 he won the European tender for literary parks with the conception and design of Horcynus Orca which is located between Scilla and Ganzirri (Messina). From 1983 to 1998 he was president and then director of the CRIC (Regional Intervention Center for Cooperation) of Reggio Calabria, for many years the most important NGO in Southern Italy. From 1994 to 1999 he was in charge of Economic Institutions at the Faculty of Architecture, Degree Course in Urban Planning, of the Mediterranean University of Reggio Calabria. In 2000 he conceived and promoted the permanent Observatory on the Balkans of Trento, thanks to the contribution of the Autonomous Province of Trento. He has worked on child labour, the Southern question, the North/South relationship and international cooperation, consumer behaviour, development models and environmental protection. He is part of the scientific advisory committee for the organization of the “TERRAFUTURA” exhibition-conference in Florence, an annual event on good life, government and business practices towards a fair and sustainable future. He is among the founders of the magazine "Altraeconomia", the first attempt in Italy to bring together international cooperation, fair trade and critical consumption.