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Laszlo Zsolnai is professor and director of the Business Ethics Center at the Corvinus University of Budapest. He is president of the European SPES Institute in Leuven, Belgium. He is Associate Member of the Las Casas Institute for Social Justice, Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford.

His international experience include University of California at Berkeley, Georgetown University, University of Richmond (Virginia), Concordia University Montreal, University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Bocconi University Milan, University of St. Gallen, Europe-University of Viadrina (Frankfurt/Oder), Copenhagen Business School, Norwegian School of Economics, and Helsinki School of Economics.

He serves as editor of the "Frontier of Business Ethics" book series at Peter Lang Publishers in Oxford. He is co-editor of the Studies in TransAtlanic Business Ethics book series at Edward Elgar. the Palgrave Studies in Sustainable Business book series at Palgrave-Macmillan, the Virtues and Economics book series at Springer, and the Studies in Buddhist Economics, Management, and Policy book series at Palgrave-MacmillanWith Luk Bouckaert he founded the European SPES Forum in Leuven, Belgium.

Laszlo Zsolnai’s most recent books include „The Spiritual Dimension of Business Ethics and Sustainability Management” (2015, Springer), „Ethics, Meaning and Market Society” (2018. Routledge, New York), „Caring Management in the New Economy - Socially Responsible Behaviour Through Spirituality” (2019, Palgrave, London), and „The Routledge International Handbook of Spirituality in Society and the Professions” (2019, Routledge, London and New York. Website: http://laszlo-zsolnai.net

Luk Bouckaert is Professor Emeritus at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. He is a Philosopher and an Economist by training. His research and publications fall within the fields of business ethics and spirituality. In 1987 he founded the Centre for Economics and Ethics at the Catholic University of Leuven. In 2000 he started the SPES Forum (Spirituality in Economics and Society) and in 2004 the international European SPES Forum which he

chaired as president until 2014. He wrote several books in Dutch. His publications in English

include: Spirituality as a public good (co-edited with L. Zsolnai, 2007), Frugality.

Rebalancing material and spiritual values in economic life (co-edited with H.Opdebeeck and

L.Zsolnai, 2008), Imagine Europe (co-edited with J. Eynikel, 2009), Respect and Economic

Democracy (co-edited with Pasquale Arena, 2010) and The Palgrave Handbook of

Spirituality and Business (co-edited with L. Zsolnai, 2011).

Prof. Gianfranco Rusconi was born in Bergamo (Italy) on March 14 th 1950. Degree and post degree in Philosophy at Milan University. Degree in Economics obtained at Bergamo University in 1980. Business Consultant and Auditing Qualification. Assistant and after Associate Professor in Accounting at Bergamo University Full Professor in Accounting and Business Ethics from 2000 to 2020, After retirement. Emeritus of the University of Bergamo from July 2021. Visiting professor in various Universities, for Graduation, Masters and phD programs Since 2012 to 2018 he was Dean of the Department of Management, Economics and Quantitative Methods, elected President of the Conference of the Italian Deans of the Departments of Economics, Management and Statistics from 2016 to 2018. Prof. Rusconi was in ExCom of EBEN and previously Chairman of the Italian Chapter; member, past president of the Scientific Committee of GBS and Member of various Italian and International Scientific Societies. He published 4 (one author) and edited (with coeditors) 11 academic books. coeditor of a special issue of Journal of Business Ethics, wrote papers and chapters for qualified national and international publishers.

Ninel Nesheva-Kiosseva is a State Associate Professor of Economics and State Ph.D.

Ninel Nesheva-Kiosseva currently works like a Professor at the Department of Administration and Management, New Bulgarian University, Sofia.

Ninel does research in Business Administration, Financial Economics and Accounting.

Main areas of research: financial crisis; ethnic banking; environmental, social and sustainability accounting; pricing of “services of general interest” (water, electricity, gas, heating).

Her research interests at the present are in the field of Environmental, Social and Sustainability Accounting and Reporting, Integrated Reporting, Pricing of Water, Methods of regulatory pricing of water and energy.

She has publications of articles and books at valuated scientific journals and publishers. She teaches different courses on accounting, economic development and valuation pricing, CSR, Social entrepreneurship. Ninel was a visiting professor in University of Bologna, University of Urbino, University of Aveiro and other universities.

Her most recent paper is “Water related price risks: Implications for company competitiveness” and most recent books: “Introduction in Environmental and Social Accounting” and “Environmental Accounting and Reporting Theory and Practice” with Baldarelli, Maria-Gabriella, Del Baldo, Mara.

Ninel’s paper “Raw Water as Business Source of Water Utilities Companies in Integrated Reporting” won the price “Best paper” at the First International Conference on Accounting and Finance Innovation, May 7-8, 2020, University of Aveiro, Portugal.

Demis Diotallevi - SGR GORUP
Graduated in Economy at Urbino University cum laude, obtained an Executive MBA at Bocconi Business School cum laude, had and intensive experience at Harvard Business School in strategic negotiation. Diotallevi joined SGR Group in 1999 as a Controller.
In the following years his role has continuously changed, becoming CAO in 2005, CFO in 2007, then Deputy CEO in 2015 and CEO in 2022. He seats in most of the boards of the 27 companies of SGR Group.

Sofia Provenzano - BIESSE GORUP
Sofia has a strong background that combines deep knowledge of science with a solid understanding and passion for sustainability; she has been working in the field of sustainability and sustainability certifications for over 10 years, where she has gained considerable experience in verification activities related to Corporate Social responsibility, Environmental sustainability and Health and Safety in Europe.
In the past 4 years, she was part of the Ingka Group global team, where she worked as a project leader for innovative sustainability projects in collaboration with internal and external stakeholders of the company.

Prof. Dr. Luigino Bruni was born in Ascoli Piceno in 1966. He is an Associate Professor at the University of Milan-Bicocca, Economics Department and at the Sophia University of Loppiano in Florence. In 1989, he graduated with a degree in Economics from the University of Ancona in Italy. From 1996 to 1998, Luigino pursued further studies in the UK. He attended the London School of Economics on the first year and the University of East Anglia the following year. In 1998, he completed his first PhD in the History of Economics at the University of Florence in Italy. In 2004 Luigino returned to the U.K. where he earned his second PhD in Economics at the University of East Anglia. For the last 15 years his research has covered many areas ranging from Microeconomics, Ethics and Economics, History of Economic Thought, Methodology of Economics, Sociality and Happiness in Economics. Recently, he has demonstrated great interest on the Civil Economy and economic-related categories, such as Reciprocity and Gratuitousness. Luigino has written many books on these topics, many of them in Italian though some have been published in English (e.g. Reciprocity, altruism and civil society, Routledge, London, 2008; A Handbook on The Economics of Happiness, edited with P. Porta, Elgar, 2007; Civil Economy, with S. Zamagni, Peter Lang, Oxford, 2007; Civil Happiness, Routledge, London, 2006).
In 2008, he won the Silver Prize at the “Templeton Enterprise Awards” for Civil Happiness.
Luigino’s current research focuses on the role of intrinsic motivation in economic and civil life.

Luk Bouckaert is Professor Emeritus at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium.

He is aPhilosopher and an Economist by training. His research and publications fall within the fields of business ethics and spirituality. In 1987 he founded the Centre for Economics and Ethics at the Catholic University of Leuven. In 2000 he started the SPES Forum (Spirituality in Economics and Society) and in 2004 the international European SPES Forum which he chaired as president until 2014. He wrote several books in Dutch. His publications in English include: Spirituality as a public good (co-edited with L. Zsolnai, 2007), Frugality.

Rebalancing material and spiritual values in economic life (co-edited with H.Opdebeeck and L.Zsolnai, 2008), Imagine Europe (co-edited with J. Eynikel, 2009), Respect and Economic Democracy (co-edited with Pasquale Arena, 2010) and The Palgrave Handbook of Spirituality and Business (co-edited with L. Zsolnai, 2011).

Helen Alford studied Manufacturing Engineering at the University of Cambridge, and worked in various manufacturing companies including Michelin Tyre. After finishing a PhD thesis on “human-centred technology,” she joined the Dominicans and as a result was sent to teach at the Dominican University in Rome, the Pontifical University of St Thomas (Angelicum). She is now an Ordinary Professor of Economics and Ethics and Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences; between 2017 and 2021 she was also Vice Rector in the same university. Her research mostly looks at the role and impact of ethics and Christian social thought in the field of management, sustainability and, increasingly, artificial intelligence. She is an Ordinary Member of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, a Consultor to the Dicastery for the Promotion of Integral Human Development and Senior Adviser to the “Blueprint for Better Business” based in the UK.

Fr Michal was born in 1967 at Jarocin, Poland. He studied at the State High School for Music in Poznan (1982-1986) and the Music Academy in Katowice (1986-1987). In 1887, he entered the Novitiate at Poznan. After his first religious profession of vows the following year, he studied Philosophy and Theology at the Dominican College of Philosophy and Theology in Krakow. After his Master degree in Theology, he was ordained to the priesthood in 1995. From 1995 to 1996, he did pastoral work at Prudniku. From 1996 to 2001, he completed his Doctoral studies and defended his thesis in Dogmatic Theology at Fribourg, Switzerland under the supervision of fr J-P Torrell, op.

Since 2001, he has been teaching at the College of Philosophy and Theology of his Province in Krakow. From 2002 to 2010, he was the Director of the Thomistic Institute in Warsaw. He was the Rector of the College of Philosophy and Theology in Krakow (2010-2013). Fr Michal has been a member of the Commission on the Intellectual Life of the Order and he was also a visiting scholar at the Institute for the Church Life at the Notre Dame University, USA (2013-2014). Since 2014 he has been teaching at the Pontifical Faculty of Theology in Warsaw. The Congregation for Catholic Education has given its approval for the appointment of fr Michal Paluch as Rector Magnificus of the Pontifical University of St Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum) Rome. In [MDB1] fr. Michal is a son of the Province of Poland and currently the Regent of Studies.

Mara Del Baldo is Associate Professor of: Financial Accounting; Entrepreneurship and small business management; and Economics of Sustainability and Accountability at the University of Urbino, Department of Economics, Society and Politics (Italy).

She is a member of the European Council for Small Business, the Centre for Social and Environmental Accounting Research, the SPES Forum, the Global Corporate Governance Institute and the European Business Ethics Network

Elisabetta Righini - Graduated in Laws at University of Bologna, in Religious Sciences and in Clinic Psychology at University of Urbino. Ph.D. in Commercial law at Bocconi University in Milan. Master in Management of live entertainment at University of Urbino. Full professor of Commercial Law and of Law of Trade and Financial Markets at the Faculties of Economics and of Laws of the University of Urbino. Director of the research Center Yunus Social Business Centre (YSBC) Urbino since its establishment in 2019. Scientific director of the project "Business and Culture. Culture as a driver for economic and social development " , with the artistic director M. ° Felicia Bongiovanni. Author of several books and articles. She was a member of the Ethics Committee of Coop Adriatica, one of the Italian biggest consumer cooperatives, and of the board of director of the Italian listed companies Unipol Gruppo S.p.a. and Biesse S.p.a., and she is currently a member of the board of the Italian insurance company Unipolsai Assicurazioni S.p.a.

Felicia Bongiovanni. Soprano. Enfant prodige, she made her debut at the "Zecchino d'Oro" young singers competition at the "Don Orione" Theater in Palermo and in the children's choir in Puccini's Boheme at the Ponchielli Theater in Cremona. At the age of sixteen she devoted herself to the study of opera singing with the teacher Filomena Marzo Andreoli and subsequently she moved to the “G.B. Martini” Conservatory in Bologna, where she graduated with M. Leone Magiera, receiving the Zucchelli Prize as best student. Later on she attended various academies: Verdiana with Carlo Bergonzi, Rossiniana with Alberto Zedda, and stages with prestigious artists, among which Gianni Raimondi, Rosanna Carteri, Sesto Bruscantini, Claudio Desderi, Alessandro Corbelli.

Winner of the National Opera Singing Competition “City of Pistoia” and of the selections for the debut in the role of Gilda under the direction of Ronaldo Panerai in Lastra a Signa (FI). She was chosen by the famous journalist and event organizer Bruno Tosi for the Maria Callas’s memorial concerts during the exhibitions dedicated to the “Divina” in Italy and abroad. In collaboration with the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, she sang in Algeri, in Addis Ababa (in front of the President of the Italian Republic Sergio Mattarella for the inauguration of the ‘G. Verdi’ Theater, accompanied at the piano by Maestro Lorenzo Bavaj), and at the National Theater of Luanda (Angola), where she introduced lyric opera singing for the first time, in a concert in the presence of the highest officers of the Nation. She sang in the presence of the Nobel Peace Prize winner Prof. Muhammad Yunus on the occasion of the premiere, at the Teatro della Fortuna in Fano, of the contemporary Opera (inspired by his book “Banker to the poor”) ‘27 dollari’, by the composer Paola Samoggia (the opera was produced by the Italian National Singers Association of which Felicia is Goodwill Ambassador). In Ravenna, on 21 November 2021, for the 7th Centenary of the Poet, she interpreted the role of Beatrice in the premiere of the opera “Dante e Francesco. Dalla selva oscura alla luce” by the contemporary composer Aurelio Samori, conducted by M. Piero Monti, of the Accademia di Santa Cecilia. She has sung in important Italian theaters including the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, the Teatro Comunale in Bologna (in the role of Nella in Puccini's Gianni Schicchi, conducted by Zoltan Pesko) , the Teatro di Montepulciano, the Teatro Massimo in Palermo. She has sung in Pesaro for the Rossini Opera Festival and in Beirut (Lebanon) for the Al Bustan Festival (Il Barbiere di Siviglia), and performed in the Theaters of the Lyric Network of Marche Region and those of the Tuscany, Lombardy and Trentino Theater Networks. She has sung on the channels of the National Italian Broadcasting Company Rai1, Rai2, Rai3, Rai International and Rai World, with international stars of the show business. She has received numerous prizes, awards and has recorded several CDs: “La cavalleria rusticana” and “La Pinotta” by Pietro Mascagni, “La Vanna” by Lamberto Pavanelli for the record label Opera Discovery (receiving beautiful reviews from musicologists in the sector) and “Pace a Voi” for the Edizioni Paoline label, with the Italian actress Claudia Koll. She is Artistic Director of the “Impresa e Cultura” (Business and Culture) project and of the Yunus Social Business Center at the University of Urbino (Italy), and in this capacity she wrote the lyrics of the contemporary opera “I dimenticati”, composed by M. Stefano Bartolucci and dedicated to the topic of social business.

Stefano Bartolucci: he graduated in piano at the conservatory G. Rossini from Pesaro with honors under the guidance of M ° Franco Scala, later in composition with M ° Aurelio Samorì and Lamberto Lugli, and orchestra conductor with M ° Manlio Benzi.Later he attempt the Masters J.Demus, M.T.Carunchio, G.Sandor and A.Delle Vigne. He won several piano competitions winning the 1st prize in the competitions: City of Genoa, City of Albenga, A.M.A. Calabria and Villar Perosa. second prize at the Schubert competition. For chamber music he won the 1st prize with the Trio Aedòn al"Euterpe" competition. He has played an intense concert activity as a soloist, director orchestra and in chamber formations in important Italian theaters (Bibiena di Mantova, Verdi Hall of Milan, Teatro Chiabrera of Savona, Garibaldi room in Genoa) and abroad (Ibero-American University of N.York, Cervantino-Festival in Mexico, Centro S.Martin of Buenos Aires, Konzerthaus of Friborg, Odeion Athinon of Athens, Sesi Minas Theatre of Belo Horizonte, Municipal Theater of Varginia, Embassy Theater Italian in Istanbul, Aula Magna of the American University of Izmir, Colon Theater in Mar del Plata, room of R.T.S.I. of Lugano, Libertador Theatre of Cordoba, Great Hall of the University of Santiago de Chile and Talca, National Library of Rosario, University of Bogotà, Tunja Culture Festival, Raimondi Theater of Lima, Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Teatro Auditorium J.B. Gutierrez of Guatemala city, J.T.Lozano Auditorium of Bogotà). Recently he has devoted himself, with great approval, to the composition and to the orchestral arrangement. He directed the orchestra of the Teatro Coccia of Novara, the G.Rossini Symphony of Pesaro, the Marchigiana Philharmonic, the EEPO orchestra, G. Da Venosa of Avellino, the A.Corelli di Ravenna e the Tirana Youth Orchestra, with which he performed several concerts in Albania. Musical director of the Milan Ballet and collaborates with Raffaele Paganini. He has often conducted symphony orchestras in the large ones P.I.Tchaikovsky ballets, collaborating with the Moscow Ballet “La classique ". In 2007 he held a series of concerts in Brazil, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the death of A. Toscanini, collaborating with the flautist A. Griminelli and the soprano G. Morigi. He also frequently collaborates with the theater actors Ivana Monti and Ivano Marescotti.He has recorded several CDs for the following record companies: B & amp; W Italia, Edipan, Agora. He recorded a television broadcast dedicated toArgentine music, broadcast by RAI 2. Perform regular concerts with numerous chamber ensembles: Trio Aedòn, Trio Malatestiano, Orchestra Reunion Cumbre, Quintetto Bolling and Quartetto Scaramouche with the percussionists of the National Academy of Santa Cecilia. With the Trio Aedòn he held some concerts-conferences on 900 Italian music in Universities, High Schools and Museums in Chile, Argentina and Brazil. Several Italian and foreign composers, F. Festa, D.Nicolau, D.Salvatore, G.Tunioli, T.Raisanen, G.Daravelis, have dedicated to this formation some compositions performed all over the world.From 2002 to 2006 it was lecturer at the Faculty of Motor Sciences of the University of the Urbino studies. He was called several times as commissioner in piano and chamber music competitions.