65th PRIX ITALIA
TURIN 21-26 SEPT. 2013
SPECIAL PRIZE EXPO 2015
JURY MEMBERS
Rod
Dubrow-Marshall
Elisa
Greco
United Kingdom
PRESIDENT
OF THE JURY
Italy
Pier Luigi
Malesani
Gilles
Pecout
Italy
France
Paolo
Sannella
Italy
Rod Dubrow-Marshall
Current position: Pro Vice-Chancellor (Student Experience), University of Central Lancashire, Preston,
Lancashire, UK, PR1 2HE. Directorate Lead for Schools of Journalism, Media and Communication,
Art, Design and Performance, Languages and International Studies, Built and Natural Environment,
Psychology, Education and Social Science, Social Work and the school of Health. Previous key
positions: February 2006 to August 2010: Dean of Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
(comprising the Law School and Departments of Psychology Education and Careers, Humanities,
Languages and Art and Social Sciences) at University of Glamorgan, Pontypridd, Rhondda-Cynon-Taff,
Wales, UK. September 2001 to January 2006: Dean of Faculty of Applied Social Sciences and
Humanities (comprising Departments of Human Sciences, Social Work and Arts and Media) at
Buckinghamshire New University (BNU), (neé Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College), High
Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, UK. Academic Qualifications, Titles and Awards: 2006 Recipient of
Annual Herbert Rosedale Award for Research on Undue Influence from the International Cultic
Studies Association 2006 Professorial Title Awarded by the University of Glamorgan. Inaugural
Lecture entitled “The ‘Influence Continuum’ – the good, the dubious and the harmful – evidence and
implications for policy and practice in the 21st Century”. 1995 Ph.D. in Psychology at University of
Nottingham. Ph.D. thesis entitled: "Examining the determinants of social category salience - an
investigation into social identification with local place". Doctoral research conducted at Nottingham
University, Department of Psychology, Centre for Organisational Health and Development 1990-1993.
Thesis examined August 1995: External examiner: Prof. Hugh Foot, University of Strathclyde. Internal
examiner: Dr. David Clarke, University of Nottingham. 1990 B.A. (Hons) in Psychology at University
of Nottingham. Directorate Lead responsibilities at UCLan: • Chair of Student Experience Committee
and lead on Student Experience Strategy • Student Employability Strategy including Careers and
Placements • Chair of UCLan Diversity Committee • UCLan Advantage – new value added package for
new students in 2012-13 • UCLan Student Union • UCLan representative on Preston Guild Advisory
Board • Outreach including local and community based arts and regeneration projects • Partnership
Network of Colleges and Schools and Partnership Strategy • UCLan’s Burnley Campus
•Access Agreement and Widening Participation strategy Research Activity: Specific Research Activities:
• Supervisor (Internal Member of Committee) for Doctoral Research students: - Jason Crabtree
(Psychology) (1997-2002 - completed) (at Buckinghamshire New University (BNU), neé
Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College BCUC)) - Lois Kendall (Psychology) (1997-2005 completed) (at BCUC/BNU) - Ali Akbar Tajmazinani (Public Policy/Sociology) (2007-2010 completed) (at University of Glamorgan) • External Examiner (External Member of Committee) for
Doctoral Research students: - Yvonne Walsh (Psychology), City University, London, 2007-09 - Susan
Raine (Sociology), University of Alberta, Canada, 2010 • Member of Executive Advisory Board of
International Cultic Studies Association (International non-profit making organisation for research and
advice on cults or sects) and member of Editorial Board of Cultic Studies Review (www.icsahome.com)
(2001-2009) and Co-Editor (2010-) of International Journal of Cultic Studies, Chair of ICSA Research
Committee and Network • Co-leader of research project examining the efficacy and ethics of current
arrangements for the regulation of counsellors and psychotherapists and the experience of victims of
abuse bringing complaints through to the new Health Professions Council • Membership of National
Committee of Family Action Information Resource (FAIR) until 2007 when organisation was replaced
by the Family Survival Trust (where I remain their International Representative) – advice and helping
organisations for families affected by undue influence and cult like groups. • UK representative on
General Assembly of European Federation of Centres for Education and Research on Sects (for FAIR
/ Family Survival Trust), 2001-2008. • Co-founder of Re-Entry Therapy, Information and Referral
Network, UK – specialist psychology and advice service for people affected by undue influence and
cult like groups and Co-UK representative on General Assembly of European Federation of Centres
for Education and Research on Sects, 2004- • Development of measure of Extent of Group Identity
Scale to measure both current and former attachment to social groups and emotional depth and
differentiation of identity in partnership with the Wellspring Retreat and Resource Centre in Ohio,
USA (the first residential treatment programme in the world which has specialised in treating the
harmful effects of abusive groups or harmful cults). • Liaison and collaboration with the military and
the development of tailored courses from 2004-2006 (arising out of supervision of PhD student whose
project involved working closely with the UK military). Specialist Areas of Research Interest: • Public
Policy in area of education, community regeneration and art, mental health and citizenship. • Social
Influence and the psychological effects of membership of high influence, high demand or cult like
social groups and settings. • Social identity in a range of organisational settings including high demand,
totalistic or cultic group settings – development of the ‘Totalistic Identity Theory’. • The psychology of
social groups and social identity with particular interest in the causes and effects of the psychological
salience of different levels of self-categorization and the relationship between different social identities.
• The effect of the local environment on self- identity, including the relationship between local and
national identity. Development of empirical measures of self-category accessibility, including the
development of an accessibility index for local area. • The relationship between person-specific aspects
of social identity and ethnocentrism. Social category salience as the psychological process involved in
attributions and inter-group interactions.
Elisa Greco
Management and Cultural Communications, Public Relations Development Consultant and Member of
THE UNITED NATION WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME – ITALY FERPI - Italian Public
Relations Federation - National Executive Council and FERPI NATIONAL CULTURAL
DELEGATE Scriptwriter of the RaiUno television programme “Heritage”, a journey through
Humanity’s Heritage A philosophy graduate, she specialized in Communications and Public Relations,
acquiring special skills and professional experience in both communications and promoting, cultural, art
and artistic events. Consultant for the Prime Minister’s Office, Ministry of Fine Arts and Cultural
Heritage and Ministry for Equal Opportunities, Head of Communication’s Department for
International Institutions. Her career has entailed working for the International Film Studios at
Cinecittà in Rome, ANEC (The Italian National Film Makers’ Association), the Italian Touring Club
and also involved projects and marketing campaigns for multinational companies such as Walt Disney.
Among the number of artistic events she has been involved in, Elisa Greco was for more than ten years
Development and Public Relations Director of the Festival of Two Worlds. Scriptwriter for the
television programmes “Heritage”, RaiUno’s journey to the World’s Heritage, theatrical and multimedia
transmissions including “History in the Dock”. Jury member at various international competitions. She
has held a series of training courses including the Financial Newspaper “Il Sole 24”’s Business School.
As well as having written a string of magazine articles, she has taken part in several international
conferences, held the post of international project manager for business, cooperation and cultural
exchange programmes. Her research in the communication sector has been the subject of in-depth
academic studies (SDA Bocconi) as well as the focus of degree thesis (Florence, Faculty of Economics
and Commerce, Company Science Department). She has moreover received numerous national and
international accolades: Medal of the Prime Minister’s Office, CNPO 2000, Buena Vista International
Prize (1996), Walt Disney Prize (1995). She has been a member of the “Terziario Donna” National
Executive Council, of the Belisario Foundation and an associate member of the Disney Academy. She
is currently an Italian Public Relations FERPI Councillor and first enrolled in this organisation in 1985
as an accredited professional. In her capacity as a FERPI CULTURA National Delegate she has
promoted several projects: conferences, meetings, launching partnerships within the framework of ties
linking business and culture. She is at present a UNITED NATIONS WORLD FOOD
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE - Italy member and Development Councillor.
Pierluigi Malesani
President COPEAM Secretary General. CURRENT POSITIONS Euronews’ Supervisory Board
member. of Media House Eurovision Roma – MHER. AGIRE (Agenzia Italiana Risposta alle
Emergenze – ONLUS) Steering Committee 2008 - 2011 Chairman of Euronews’member. PREVIOUS
POSITIONS EURONEWS 1998 2007 - 2010 Chairman of NewCo Rai International. Supervisory
Board. RAI 2006 - 2007- 2008 Director of Institutional and Internationals Relations. 1994 - 1998
DirectorDirector of Prix Italia (Venice and Verona editions). IRI of Institutional Relations of Fintecna;
President and CEO of Autostrade International; Board of Directors member of Autostrade, Condotte
d'Acqua, Sovis, 1997 - 2000Italinpa, Sistemi Urbani, Italstrade, Italimpianti, Istra. 1990 - 1993 Deputy
CentralPresident of Servizi Tecnici and Italsocotec. 1980 - 1989 Responsible forDirector of IRI.
MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS training and interuniversity cooperation programmes, Dpt.
Cooperazione allo 1973 - 1975 Head of project of the Somali National University forSviluppo. 1970 1973 Reseacher at Centro StudiComerint (ENI Group), Somalia. CENSIS Investimenti Sociali.
Partecipate in ministerial working groups such as “Nuove 1981 - 1987sedi universitarie” and “Governo
della città”. ACADEMIC CAREER Professor of Regional Economy at the University of Reggio
Calabria; Professor of Development Economics at the University of Florence. PUBLICATIONS La
Cooperazione italiana per l’Università Nazionale Somala (Palombi), 1998. Politiche della cooperazione a
confronto. I modelli di Francia, Germania, Giappone e Spagna. Riflessioni per il caso italiano
(Edindustria), 1992.
2007 Commendatore dell’Ordine diINTERNATIONAL SIGNS OF
HONOUR/DISTINCTIONS 2011 Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des LettresSant’Agata (San
Marino) 2012 Ordre National du Mérite (France)
Gilles Pecout
Gilles PECOUT, born in Marseilles on 2nd December 1961, is a historian. Professor of Contemporary
History and Head of Department of History at the École Normale Supérieure (ENS) in Paris. He
furthermore holds the chair of Mediterranean Europe and Italy History at the Ecole pratique des
Hautes Etudes (Sorbonne). Former student of Paris’ École Normale Supérieure and an exchange
fellowship student of Pisa’s Scuola Normale Superiore, he is a former member of the École Française
of Rome (Palazzo Farnese). Member of editorial or scientific boards of the following magazines in
France, Italy, the United States and the United Kingdom: Histoire et sociétés rurales, Le Mouvement
Social, Memoria e Ricerca, Historia Magistra, Journal of Modern Italian Studies, European History
Quarterly, Bollettino di italianistica. Gilles Pécout is a member of the scientific board of Turin’s
FestivalStoria, of the scientific committee of the Fondazione Valenzi. He has been a member of
committee for the national celebrations of Garibaldi, the Napoleonic Decade and Cavour.
PUBLICATIONS His work deals with the history of Italy, France, Franco-Italian relations and the
Mediterranean. His publications include: -Naissance de l’Italie contemporaine 1770-1922 reprinted
2004 and translations into Italian (1999 and 2011): Il Lungo Risorgimento, Bruno Mondadori; -Penser
les frontières de l’Europe XVIIIe-XXI, Paris, PUF, 2004 ; -Atlas historique de la France contemporaine
XIXe-XXe s, Paris, Autrement, 2007, 2011. He moreover edited the translation and historical edition
of: -Le livre Coeur by Edmondo De Amicis, Presses de l’ENS, 2002 -Viva Garibaldi, by Alexandre
Dumas, Coll. Millenni, Einaudi, 2004. Articles -70 articles published in France, Italy, the U.S.A.,
Greece, Spain, Sweden, Japan and China. -13 articles published in newspapers (or magazines): Le
Monde, Libération, Il Mattino, Il Corriere. In 2011 he chaired the scientific committee of the
“Napoleon III and Italy. Birth of a Nation” exhibition (Musée des Invalides de Paris-Museo del
Risorgimento of Milan-Fondazione Alinari). HONOURS Chevalier de l’ordre national du mérite de la
République Française Member of the Order of Palmes académiques du ministère de l'Education
nationale Commendatore dell’ordine al Merito della Repubblica italiana (an honour conferred by Italian
Head of State Giorgio Napolitano).
Paolo Sannella
Born in Naples on 19th July 1939, he graduated from Naples University in 1961. He attended specialist
courses at the University of Leuven and at the John Hopkins University. From 1966 to 1973 he was a
professor at the National University of Zaire (Democratic Congo), teaching international politics and
political sociology, also holding the post of Head of the University’s Political Science and
Administrative Department. A Career Diplomat from 1973 to 2005, he has served in Somalia, Syria,
Austria, France (OCSE-Paris), Saudi Arabia, Angola (in a capacity as ambassador) and the Ivory Coast
(ambassador, accredited also in Burkina Faso, Niger, Liberia and Sierra Leone); Paolo Sanella is the
Founding Chairman of the “Centre de Recherches sur l’Etat en Afrique” CREA, whose head office is
located in Abidjan in the Ivory Coast. CREA is an African Centre, founded in Africa for Africa. It was
created to voice the needs and thoughts which had emerged in the historical-cum-political context of
the African Continent. Founded in 2005 on the inspiration of a predominantly African group of
diplomats, intellectuals and politicians, CREA is aimed at promoting thoughts concerning the
functioning of the State in Africa and encouraging meetings between “statesmen” and “men of
science”, favouring and identifying practical solutions, effective and appropriate for local realties. He is
also Chairman of the Relations Centre with Africa of the Italian Geographical Society, CRA/SGI
whose head office is in Via della Navicella, Rome.