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Fabio COLASANTI
Senior Advisor of the European Policy Centre and President of the International Institute of
Communications (London, UK), Fabio Colasanti, born in 1946, was previously a Director General
in the European Commission for over ten years.
He headed first the department called “Enterprise” from January 2000 to June 2002 and, from
July 2002 to March 2010, was in charge of the department for “Information Society and Media”.
This department is responsible for developing and overseeing European regulatory policies for
electronic communications and for the audiovisual sector, as well as promoting a faster take up of
Information and Communication Technologies throughout the European Union.
Prior to this appointment, he was a Director in the European Commission’s “Budget” department, with
responsibility for the “Resources” Directorate. From 1988 to the end of 1995, Mr Colasanti served successively as Head of the “Economic
Forecasts” and “Macro-economic policy analysis” units of the Commission’s department for Economic and Financial Affairs.
From 1985 to the end of 1987, Mr. Colasanti was a member of the Commission’s Spokesman’s Group with responsibility for
economic and monetary affairs, regional policy, credit and investment, small and medium-sized enterprises (the portfolios of
Commissioners Alois Pfeiffer and Abel Matutes).
From October 1977 to 1984, Mr Colasanti worked as an economist in the Commission’s department for Economic and
Financial Affairs (budgetary policies, monitoring of the Italian economy, short-term forecasts, European Monetary System
and the Ecu).
Mr Colasanti holds diplomas in economics from the University of Rome and the College of Europe in Bruges. An Italian
national, he works regularly in English and French, is fluent in German and Spanish and speaks some Greek.
Prof. Francisco CONTRERAS
Professor of Philosophy of Law at the University of Sevilla (Spain).
Author of the following books: Derechos sociales: Teoría e ideología (1994); Defensa del Estado
social (1996); A propósito de Kant: Estudios conmemorativos en el bicentenario de su muerte (2003;
co-edited with Fernando Llano); La filosofía de la Historia de Johann G. Herder (2004); Savigny y
el historicismo jurídico (2005); Tribunal de la razón: El pensamiento jurídico de Kant (2005); Kant
y la guerra: Una revisión de “La paz perpetua” desde las preguntas actuales (2007); Cristianismo y
nueva izquierda (2011; co-written with Diego Poole).
Winner of the Award “Premio Legaz Lacambra de Pensamiento Jurídico” (1999).
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