The first edition of the recognition promoted by the Biomedical University Foundation goes to the Umbrian entrepreneur
The Biomedical University Foundation awarded the first edition of the Joaquín Navarro-Valls International Award for Leadership and Charity to Brunello Cucinelli. The ceremony took place today in the Palazzo della Cancelleria in Rome, in the presence of numerous important national guests. The Prize is also promoted to celebrate the first thirty years of activityUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma and Campus Bio-Medico University Hospital Foundation. It wants to be a recognition to figures of great social, economic and institutional importance. Women and men who in their journey have been able to demonstrate integrity and important ethical foundations in their leadership activity, ability to communicate, valorisation of human resources, solidarity and a vision on Leadership and Benevolence that is close to that, still profound and current today , of Navarro-Valls.
The nominations were advanced by a Scientific Committee, made up of: Matthew Colaninno, Executive Deputy Chairman Piaggio Group, Joseph Cornetto Bourlot, Vice Chairman Advisory Board Biomedical University Foundation, Frederick Eichberg, Vice President Biomedical University Foundation Amalia Marchini, psychiatrist, Raffaele Perrone DonnorsoANPO President. While to select the winner a jury of five people: Paolo Arullani, President Biomedical University Foundation, Ferruccio De Bortoli, Journalist and essayist, Gianni Letta, Advisory Board Biomedical University Foundation, Mario Moretti Polegato, President Geox, Lucia Vedani, Founder and President of CasAmica ODV.
"The Award intends to remember Joaquín Navarro-Valls and his important contribution to the development of the Biomedical University Foundation and the entire Bio-Medico Campus but also to become a project that looks to the future, bringing attention back to two values too often forgotten in companies and which we believe should also inspire the university world: the capacity for leadership and benevolence - he claims Paolo Arullani, President Biomedical University Foundation -. We must support those who exercise leadership combined with benevolence to promote a new culture of gift that knows how to generate social impact and has the good of the person as its main purpose."
"It is with deep emotion that I received today, from the Biomedical University Foundation, the coveted Joaquín Navarro-Valls International Award for Leadership and Benevolence - says Brunello Cucinelli - and this for two reasons: the first consists in the great esteem I have always had for a man like Dr. Navarro-Valls who knew how to unite Faith and profession in the medical and journalistic fields in a single profound reason for living, constantly close to two great popes such as Giovanni Paul II and Benedict XVI. The second reason is that in my vision of the world the value of Benevolence occupies one of the first places, and I have always guided my enterprise according to the thought of St. Benedict of Norcia when he taught his abbots: 'Always be rigorous and gentle, demanding master and kind father."
