Organisms
• Promoting Committee
- - Monica Palozzi
President of A.C. Pragmata and founding member (literary consultant, translator and writer)
- - Marco Ischiboni
Secretary of A.C. Pragmata and founding member (architect)
- - Simonetta Fraschetti
Founding member of A. C. Pragmata (teacher of Art and set designer)
- - Roberto Fraschetti
Founding member of A. C. Pragmata (translator and interpreter)
• Organizational Secretariat
- - Michelina Minati
Founding member of A. C. Pragmata (service consultant)
- - Michelangela Gisotti
Founding member of A. C. Pragmata (public relations)
• Honorary President
- Gian Piero Reverberi
Graduate in composition and piano at "Paganini" conservatory of Genoa, he is composer, arranger and conductor.
At the age of 20 he composed some famous arrangements for the musicians of the music School of Genoa, among which “La Gatta”, “Sassi”, “Senza fine”, “Un uomo vivo” (Gino Paoli); “Quando”, “Se qualcuno ti dirà”, “Se stasera sono qui” (Luigi Tenco) and eight albums for Fabrizio De Andrè.
In 1963 he cooperated in the composition of the song “Se mi vuoi lasciare” by Michele; in 1968 “Visioni”, “Sensazione” and the album “Senza orario, senza bandiera” for the New Trolls; then “Uomo di pezza”, “Collage”, “Felona e sorona” for Le Orme; then in the 70's he cooperated with Lucio Battisti for many hits of his like “Non è Francesca”, “Un’avventura”, “Pensieri e parole” and albums like “Emozioni”.
Moreover he cooperated with well-known pop music artists like Mina, Ornella Vanoni, Patty Pravo, Sergio Endrigo, Lucio Dalla, I Ricchi e Poveri, Paul Anka, Neil Sedaka, Caterina Valente, Ivan Graziani.
He also composed suites, piano concerts and orchestral pieces for important philharmonic orchestras like Munich one. He is author of the “Suite For Harmonica And Strings” for Willi Burger, the “2nd Suite For Harmonica And Orchestra” and the “Concert For Harmonica And Orchestra”.
In 1979 he created a chamber ensemble called Rondò Veneziano consisting of nine soloists and twenty accompaniment musicians wearing 18th century clothes and wigs and playing the baroque rondo in a pop-rock version. The public was enthusiastic about it, the success was immediate and the albums “Rondò Veneziano” (1980), “La Serenissima “ and “Odissea Veneziana” became world famous. Up till now Rondò Veneziano sold over 25 millions of albums all over the world, including several covers.
• Honorary Committee
- - Roma Romualda Maciejewicz
Lecturer of Economic Geography and History of Economic Thinking at Luiss University of Rome and member of A.E.R.E.C. (Accademia Europea Relazioni Economiche e Culturali), she is financial consultant and researcher in the field of the economic and financial studies as well as promoter of international meetings and seminars about the international economic relations. She is also author of several academic, financial and economic books.
- - Arnold Cassola
Former lecturer of Italian Matters at the Faculty of Letters at the University of Catania and at the Teachers' Training College at "La Sapienza" University of Rome, he is currently professor of Compared Literatures at the University of the Studies of Malta. He is author of various important archives discoveries and of over twenty books and academic essays published in Italy, Belgium, Malta, Spain, Russia and Ukraine as well as several articles published in various international academic magazines. He is member of many associations of studies and organizer of meetings and conferences about literature and languages. He is also lecturer at several European Universities. In 2003 he was appointed Knight of the Italian Republic by the President A. Ciampi, in 1999 he was appointed Secretary-General of the European Green Party located in Brussels, in 2006 Member of the Italian Parliament, in 2008 Leader of the Maltese Green Party.
- - Giulio Tarro
Former cooperator of Prof. A.B. Sabin, winner of Nobel Prize, Giulio Tarro is a medical researcher in the immunotherapeutic sector. He holds several international chemotherapeutic patents, he is Lecturer of virology at the University of Naples and at the University of Cincinnati (Ohio – U.S.A.). He is Managing Researcher at the CNR, project Manager at the National Cancer Institute (U.S.A.), Senior Scientist at the N.C.I. Frederick Cancer Research Center (Maryland – U.S.A.), head physician of Virology at D. Cotugno Hospital of Naples, President of the Committee of Biotechnologies of UNESCO Virosphere and Life President of T. & L. Beaumont Bonelli Foundation. He got several international decorations and awards among which the decoration of Lincei Academy, the Gold Medal of the Ministry of Education of the Italian Republic and the Culture Award conferred by the Prime Minister. He is author of over 300 scientific books and he holds important jobs at some prestigious academic institutions and research institutes.
- - Marco Gisotti
Reporter and divulger, he has been for 11 years manager of Modus Vivendi magazine dealing with science, nature and ways of life, having as supplement since 2005 the monthly magazine Ecolavoro, the only Italian publication fully dedicated to the world of green work.
Member of the Foundation for Environmental Education Italy, the organism that, besides its various activities, yearly confers the Blue Flags, he is also member of the scientific committee of For Planet.
Four years ago he founded the Master of Environmental Communication at CTS Studies Center in Rome under the patronage of the Faculty of Communication Science of La Sapienza University of Rome, with which he also carried out, as manager, the Course of advanced education of international Production of the documentary.
In 2007 he thought up and wrote the environmental animation serial for children “2 amici per la Terra”, currently broadcast on Rai3.
Communication and environment consultant at several corporations, he was invited in 2009 to hold a Workshop at the International Journalism Festival of Perugia just about the environmental communication.
He is Managing Director of Greencross Newsletter, an environmental association founded by Mikhail Gorbaciov about environmental politics for a sustainable development.
- María del Rosario Lillo del Pozo Ollero
Founder, manager and coordinator of A.M.A.M. of Madrid, one of the most important Spanish professional training centres for mentally handicapped people. She gives courses to the operators looking after mentally handicapped people at the Somosaguas Psychology University, Colegio Universitario D. Bosco, Colegio Universitario La Salle and Colegio Universitario Escuny. She is lecturer at Ibero-American and World Congresses of Businesswomen (Spain, Mexico, Brazil, Portugal, Peru, Korea, Egypt, Argentina, Morocco, Vietnam, Australia, Germany, Chile, Denmark, China, New Zealand, Canada). In the artistic sector she is the author of important geographic and social photo exhibitions held in Florida, Madrid, Seville, Palma de Mallorca, Oviedo and Tarragona.