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Gariwo

Gariwo Scientific Committee and Ambassadors

the intellectuals committed to the Righteous subject

The GARIWO Foundation is an institution that brings together people of different ideas, political and religious beliefs, with the aim of spreading and honoring the Righteous around the world.
The Foundation has a Management and an internal structure that express the public positions of GARIWO, in the official channels and in the press releases of the Foundation.

Each person who collaborates is obviously free to express their personal opinions, even on the GARIWO website (which is open to discussion and comparison), but these should not be considered an official expression of GARIWO.

There are also "ambassadors", who with their work contribute to stimulating and enriching the debate on the Righteous by identifying tools for in-depth analysis, providing reflections, suggesting significant figures and helping us to spread the message of the Righteous. The Foundation is not responsible for any personal opinions and positions that they may possibly express on the public stage.

AMBASSADORS

Gabriele Albertini
Mayor of Milan from 1997 to 2006, he has been elected to the European Parliament in 2004. He has been a member of several European committees and Vice-president of the European Parliament delegation for the relations with NATO. Reelected MEP in 2009, he has been Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Commission in the European Parliament. He has also been the first signatory of the Written Declaration no. 3/2012, establishing the European Day of the Righteous. Senator of the Republic since 2013, he is the first signatory to the Senate of the Bill for a Day in Memory of the Righteousness of Humanity.

Emilio Barbarani
Ex-Ambassador to Santiago de Chile in the 70's, he helped Tomaso de Vergottini to allow the escape of 750 supporters of the Allende government.

Lamberto Bertolé
Lamberto Bertolé has been working as a social worker since 1998 and since 2005 as a high school teacher, founder in 2003 of the Arimo Social Cooperative. The commitment in the social and in the school is intertwined with the political one, particularly in the field of social and educational policies, deepening the issues of public direction, community welfare, the enforceability of rights and prevention. Various positions as Area Counselor and to the Municipality of Milan between 1999 and 2011. He held the position of chairman of the House, State Property and Public Works commission and of president of the Prison Subcommittee from 2014 to February 2015.

Jean Blanchaert
Gallerist, antiquarian and multifaceted artist, he is a draftsman, illustrator, calligrapher and glass sculptor. In 2013 he curated for the FAI, at Villa Necchi, in Milan, the exhibition Arte Ceramica Oggi in Italia. In 2014 he curated Arte del Vetro Oggi and in 2016, Glass. Art of Glass Today in Villa dei Vescovi, in Luvigliano di Torreglia (Padua). Drawing, in particular ink drawing, has been a constant passion of his for at least forty years: in recent years his drawings have been requested to illustrate children's books, covers, newspapers (Tam-Tam, Diario, Verve, Art and Dossier, Linkiesta), cultural initiatives. For Rizzoli, in 2013, he published an illustrated book entitled A saint a day.

Olivier Brochet
He is the General Consul of France in Milan since August 27, 2014. In previous years he has held the positions of First Counsellor at the French Embassy in Ethiopia and the African Union, Counsellor for Cooperation and director of the French Institute of Zagreb (Croatia).

Oscar Buonamano
Journalist, he is Editorial Director of Carsa Edizioni, which publishes volumes of art and architecture and tourist guides. As part of his journalistic activity, he has a blog on L'espresso, Culture Metropolitane (Metropolitan Cultures), he is the Director responsible for the online magazine Pagina and for I quaderni dell’Orsa. Editor of the European cultural festival Lector in fabula, he has create and directs the Literary festival "Conversations in Pescara. Society, language, literature". He is currently Vice-President of the Order of Journalists of Abruzzo.

Dario Carella
Rai journalist, he is the curator of RegionEuropa, the news weekly european program which describes the relation between local Italian territories, their institutions and European institutions - European Parliament, Commission and the regional Committee.

Francesco M. Cataluccio
Essayist and writer. He is the author of numerous essays and articles on the culture and history of Central Europe. Among his books: Immaturity. The disease of our time (Einaudi, 2004; new extended edition: 2014); I'm going to see if it's better beyond that. Almost a Central European breviary (Sellerio, 2010); Chernobyl (Sellerio, 2011); The memory of the Uffizi (Sellerio, 2013); On the occasion of the epidemic (Casagrande Editions, 2020).

Giovanni Cominelli
Journalist, he graduated in '68 in philosophy at the State University of Milan with Enzo Paci, after his first studies at the Catholic University and in Berlin. Militant and leader of the student movement, then the workers' movement for socialism, then the PDUP. He was municipal and regional councilor of the Communist Party, in the area of ​​improvement. Today he is on liberal-socialist positions. He is an expert in educational policies and teacher training. He wrote: The fall of the light wind (2008); The school is finished, perhaps (2009); School: breaking the wall between classroom and life (2016). He collaborates with New secondary, with Mondoperaio, with www.santalessandro.org

Raimondo De Cadorna
Born in Saint Louis (USA) in 1957, he has a degree in political science at the University of Rome. In 1988 he began his diplomatic career working at the Italian Embassy in Kinshasa (DRC). In 1992 he was appointed Italian Consul in Brisbane (Australia) and in 1995 he served as regent of the Consulate General in Mumbai (India). In 1998 he was placed at the head of the administrative office of the Directorate General Emigration and Social Affairs; two years later he was appointed counselor at the Italian Embassy in Belgrade. Today he was the Italian ambassador in Tunis.

Tatjana Dordevic
Journalist and writer, since 2006 she has been living in Milan where she works as a foreign press correspondent for several media in Serbia and other countries of the former Yugoslavia. She collaborates with many Italian and international magazines and is the winner of numerous awards, including the Cristiana Matano 2023 journalistic award for the best foreign press coverage and the "INTERFER Golden NIKE international festival of reportage 2021" award for the story "Wonderful life of Jovica Jovic".

Antonio Ferrari
Journalist, editorialist, and special correspondent of the "Corriere della Sera", he has been committed for 26 years to cover the Middle East by following the Israeli-Palestinian issue, the wars in Iraq, the difficult balances in Lebanon, Syria and Jordan. He wrote several books including "Sami, una storia libanese, Islam sì, Islam no. Le colpe dei musulmani e le nostre" and he edited the book "Ebrei di Salonicco - 1943" with Jannis Chrisafis and Alessandra Coppola.

Anna Foa
Historian and professor at the University La Sapienza of Rome. She is specialized in history of culture, history of mentality and Jewish history. She was a "visiting professor" in several American universities (University of Michigan, University of Washington, Smith College - Massachusetts) and currently she teaches in the Religious Studies at the American University of Rome.

Giovanna Grenga
She worked for the National Operational Program for School at the Ministry of Education dealing with equal opportunities and adult education. Member of the scientific committee of the Centro Studi Zingari, he collaborated with the magazine Lacio Drom; currently he is in the editorial board of the Roma and Sinti Today magazine. Specialized in Intercultural Didactics and Shoah Didactics, she is a member of the Joint Commission of the contest "Young people remember the Shoah" and a founding member of the Garden of the Righteous of Humanity in Rome.

Hafez Haidar
Writer, poet and professor at the University of Pavia, Lebanese but with italian citizen. In 1986 he chose to leave the diplomatic career and devote all his activities to teaching and writing, with the purpose of build a bridge of dialougue between Italy and Middle East.

Maryan Ismail
Cultural mediator and professor of immigration's antropology, she is an italian and somali citizen. Maryan is an exponent of Sufi Islam, one of the most moderate expresions.

Viviana Kasam
Journalist, in 2010 she created, under the aegis of the Nobel Prize Rita Levi Montalcini, the Association BrainCircle Italy, of which she is president. Named as Knight of the Italian Republic for business merits, she is currently working with the Sole24ore, Corriere of Ticino, Pagine Ebraiche and the website Moked.

Gaetano Liguori
He graduated in piano and electronic composition at the Conservatory "Giuseppe Verdi" in Milan. Gaetano composes soundtracks for theater, film, radio and ballet. In 2012 he composed the music for Oratorio "The senseless goodness" on the texts written by Gabriele Nissim and in 2015 he released his CD "A piano for the Righteous", Bull Records, produced by Gariwo.

Antony Lishak
Born in Liverpool in 1958 - after working 15 years as an elementary school teacher, he began his career as an author of children's and youth books. Graduated in sociology, his works fascinate many children and stimulate their creativity. Through his book Stars, based on the work of Jewish saviors Jan and Antonina Zabinski at the Warsaw Zoo, he wants to encourage children to consider the themes of courage and selflessness in their broadest sense. He is also the director of Learning from The Righteous, an educational association inspired by the stories of the Righteous among the Nations.

Antonella Maucioni
Biologist, former Headmaster. A great personal passion for history and memory have prompted her to promote many educational paths for Peace and Human Rights in schools of all levels. She is an expert in education policies and teacher training and she is an international trainer of the Feuerstein Method. He is currently the Guarantor of the rights of children and adolescents of the Municipality of Fiumicino.

Cristina Miedico
Archaeologist and currently director and curator of the Civic Archaeological Museum of Angera (VA), she commemorated Khaled al Asaad during the inauguration of the Tunis Garden, on 15th July 2016.

Mordecai Paldiel
Israeli, was the director of the Righteous Department at Yad Vashem (the Holocaust Memorial of Jerusalem), he now teaches at the Yeshiva College (with the Yeshiva University) and Drew University. He has long worked with Moshe Bejski who had ran Yad Vashem's Righteous Department for 30 years before him. He wrote several books including The Path of the Righteous: Gentile Rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust, Whosoever Saves One Life: The Uniqueness of the Righteous Among the Nations, Sheltering the Jews: Stories of Holocaust Rescuers and German Rescuers of Jews: Individuals versus the System. He has recently taken a stance in the international debate on the impossibility for the Jews to receive the title of "Righteous among the nations". He is a Board Member of the Sousa Mendes Foundation.

Craig Palmer
Earned his PhD in cultural anthropology from Arizona State University in 1988 and taught at universities in Missouri and Colorado. His research on how inspirational portrayals of the Righteous Among the Nations in museums around the world can lead to evidence-based social change has been funded by the Binah Yitzrit Foundation of Austin, Texas.

Giuliano Pisapia
Graduated in Political Science and Law, he has been a criminal lawyer, a deputy for two legislatures from 1996 to 2006, president of the Chamber's justice commission, then the prison commission and finally of the commission for the reform of the penal code at the Ministry of Justice. From 2011 to 2016 he has been mayor of Milan. He has written several books, including In attesa di giustizia. Dialogo sulle riforme possibili (with Carlo Nordio, 2010), Cambiare Milano si può (2011) and Due arcobaleni nel cielo di Milano (with Stefano Rolando, 2011).

Don Gino Rigoldi
Chaplain of the under-age criminal institute Cesare Beccaria and president of Comunità Nuova, he conducts a strong communication activity on radio and television broadcasts, about subjects that ranging from spirituality to addiction, from immigration to poverty. He has received the award as meritorious citizen of the City of Milan, the Knight of the Republic and in 1999 he recived the Ambrogino d'Oro

Andrée Ruth Shammah
Producer, top exponent of Milan's cultural stage, in 1972, with actor Franco Parenti, Andrée Ruth Shammah founded the Salone Pier Lombardo (nowadays called Teatro Franco Parenti) in Milan, of which she's been the Project Manager since 1989. The inventress of the "International Festival of Jewish Literature", she signed more than fifty productions and she is personally committed to the development of the town, by reviving its cultural panorama.

Milena Santerini
Member of the group Per l'Italia, professor at the Cattolica University of Milan, president of the Parliamentary Alliance against intollerance and racism of the Europe Council, she takes care of school's problems, family and social cohesion. She is working for the rights of children and for the inclusion of foreigners.

Rita Sidoli
University professor, member of the Centro di Solidarietà Internazionale - Cattolica University, she recommends some tools for the Shoa teaching: in 2000 she wrote Memoria della Shoà e coscienza della scuola.

Massimiliano Speziani
Massimiliano studied at Marinelli and after the high school diploma he graduated at Paolo Grassi in Milan, as professional actor. He staged the show named Il Memorioso, taken form the book written by Gabriele Nissim, and under the direction of Paola Bigatto.

Nadav Tamir
Senior Advisor for Governmental and International Affairs at the Israeli Peres Center for Peace and a board member of Mitvim, the Israeli Institute for Regional Foreign Policies. He was a policy adviser to President Shimon Peres, served at the Israeli Embassy in Washington and as Consul General to New England and Boston. He is a member of the Geneva Initiative Steering Committee and chair of the Wexner Israel Alumni Association.

Sergio Vicario
With a degree in Economics, he was a MS militant, and today he is a specialist in communications and public relations. Sergio is the CEO of the press office Metafora.

Simone Zoppellaro
Journalist, he spent six years working in Iran and Armenia, with frequent tralvels in other countries of that area. He writes about Caucasus and Middle East, but also about Germany - where he now lives - on several newspapers, like Manifesto, La Stampa, Il Giornale, and on the online magazine of Treccani. He wrote the books Armenia oggi (Armenia Today) and Il genocidio degli yazidi (The Yazidi Genocide), published by Guerini e Associati in 2016 and in 2017.

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

Francesco M. Cataluccio
Essayist and writer, he studied philosophy and literature in Florence and Warsaw. Since 1989 he has worked in publishing, directing the Addison and then the Bollati Basic Books. Today he takes care of the cultural programs of the "Milanese Refrigerators".

Luca Degani
Lawyer, professor of "Law of the public administrations and the non-profit organizations" and of "Social law and legislation", he wrote many books and articles on the non-profit organizations and social policies. He is the Director General of the "Sacra Famiglia" (Sacred Family) Foundation. He has been a consultant to the UNEBA and a member of the board of directors of the "Caritas" Foundation for 10 years.

Marcello Flores
Italian historian, renown academic of genocide, he is a professor at the University of Siena and Director of the European Master in "Human Rights and Genocide Studies". He is best known thanks to the work of the scientific-editorial board, named "History of the Holocaust. The crisis of Europe, the extermination of the Jews and the memory of the twentieth century".

Anna Foa
Historian and professor at the University La Sapienza of Rome. She is specialized in history of culture, history of mentality and Jewish history. She was a "visiting professor" in several American universities (University of Michigan, University of Washington, Smith College - Massachusetts) and currently she teaches in the Religious Studies at the American University of Rome.

Konstanty Gebert
Journalist and Jewish activist from Poland, he is one of the most important war reporters of various Polish dailies. In 1978 he was one of the main organizers of the so-called Flying university, a secret high education institution teaching the people on various subjects forbidden by the Polish Communist regime. In 1980 he joined the Solidarność Union. In 1989 he was one of the journalists accredited to the Polish Roundtable. Since 1990 he has been a member of the Polish Christian-Jewish Council. Since 1992 he has worked for "Gazeta Wyborcza", one of the greatest and more significant Polish dailies. For this newspaper he has been a correspondent during the war in Yugoslavia. In 1992 and 1993 he was also a consultant to Tadeusz Mazowiecki, the first Polish Head of government after the fall of the Wall and Special rapporteur of the UN Human Rights Commission for former Yugoslavia. In 1997 he also ran the Jewish-Polish monthly “Midrasz”.

Raymond Kevorkian
French historian of Armenian descent, he is Project Manager at the Université Paris VIII, Saint-Denis, Institut Francais de Géopolitique, and Managing Director of the Nubar UGAB library in Paris. He recently published the following essays: Le Génocide des Arméniens, Paris Odile Jacob 2006; L’opposition de fonctionnaires ottomans au génocide des Armeniens. Approche comparéè des villes turques, in Jacques Sémelin, Actes du colloque de l’Istitut de Sciences Politique, Paris Les Presses des Editions de Sciences PO, 2008, and he compiled the entry “Le Genocide des Arméniens” of the Encyclopédie Universalis, 2006.

Gerard Malkassian
Philosophy' professor in the "preparatory classes at the Ecole Normale Supérieure", invited lecturer of Yerevan State University (Armenia). In Paris, he organizes the "Conférences du Salon de Littérature arménienne", public meetings dedicated to the Armenian literature. He writes for the monthly magazine Nouvelles d'Arménie Magazine. Gerard also published with Ellipses: Introduction à la Moral Philosophy (2002) and Le Candide de Voltaire: a Débat philosophique (2005).

Salvatore Natoli
Professor of Theoretic Philosophy at the Università degli Studi di Milano - Bicocca, he recently dealt with the relationship between language and ethics. He has taught Logics at the faculty of Literature and Philosophy of the University of Venice and Philosophy of Politics at the Faculty of Political Science at the Università degli Studi di Milano. He has worked with many magaszines, including"Prospettive Settanta", "Il centauro", "Democrazia e diritto", "Religione e società", "Bailamme" e "Metaxù".

Liliana Picciotto
In charge of research with the CDEC Foundation (Centre of Contemporary Jewish Documentation, Centro di Documentazione Ebraica Contemporanea). She wrote several books including I Giusti d’Italia. I non ebrei che salvarono gli ebrei 1943-1945 on the Italian Righteous among the nations and she co-authored the movie Memoria, a collection of interviews to the last survivors of the Auschwitz extermination camp. She is a member of the scientific committee of the Fondazione Fossoli, of that of the Jewish Museum of Bologna and of the editing committee of the magazine "La Rassegna Mensile di Israel".

Since the end of the 90s, Gariwo has received the support of several personalities, who have supported the initiatives and the call for a Day of the Righteous:
Avraham Burg; Adriano Dell’Asta; Agnes Grunwald-Spier; Arrigo Levi
(1926 - 2020); Riccardo Noury; Martin Palous; Vittorio Emanuele Parsi; Robert Satloff; Baruch Tenembaum; Umberto Veronesi (1925 - 2016).