The economist Piero Cipollone, current member of the Executive Committee of the European Central Bank, will be in Avezzano (L’Aquila) on Saturday 14 June for the presentation ceremony of the Golden Lions Award. Appointment at 5pm in the council room of the Municipal Palace (Piazza della Repubblica, 8).
The award is assigned every year by the Lions Club of Avezzano to illustrious personalities from Avezzano and Marsican who have distinguished themselves nationally and internationally in the sectors of economy, culture, journalism, art, music, entrepreneurship, justice and the scientific world. Past winners also include Gianni Letta, Mario Pescante, Michele Prestipino, Attilio Befera and Natalino Irti. Also present at the ceremony will be the president of the Control Commission on the activity of the managing bodies of compulsory forms of social security and assistance, the economist Alberto Bagnai, the mayor of Avezzano, Giovanni Di Pangrazio and the president of the council Fabrizio Ridolfi.
“This year”, explains the president of the Avezzano Lions club Antonio Del Fosco, the jury attributed it to Dr. Piero Cipollone, a talented economist, originally from Avezzano, a hamlet of Cese, for having achieved very important positions at national and international level and in within the European Community, the last of which, in Italy, deputy director general of the Bank of Italy, and within the ECB, President of the Eurosystem high-level task force for a digital euro, president of the committee for payments to Euro Retail Paymants Board ERPB, Chair of the Euro Cyber Resilience Board for Pan-European Financial Infrastructures. Roles that are giving prestige and visibility to our community.”
