Instructor

Prof. Andrea Amato

He is professor at the Master “Development Cooperation” of CIRPS at Rome University “La Sapienza”. Since 1993 Andrea Amato has been President of the Mediterranean Institute (IMED). He has, ever since its establishment, ensued the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership, critically enriching the political debate and actively contributing to the implementation of its regional dimension. In this framework, he has promoted different initiatives in the fields of strengthening the role of civil society (IMED coordinated the EuroMed Civil Society Programme of the European Commission), women’s rights and gender equality (namely in the Maghreb Countries), and the Euro-Mediterranean Social Space and Social Dialogue. With regards to the latter, IMED organised the Tripartite Conference in 1996 and the first Forum of the Euro-Mediterranean Social Dialogue in 2004. He has been a member of the Group of Experts of the European Commission that prepared the Report “Foresight on the long-term challenges for the Mediterranean area” (published in May 2011). 2007: member of the International Expert Group, gathered at the “Institute de la Méditerranée” of Marseille, that elaborated an Opinion on the Mediterranean Union proposed by President Sarkozy. He is one of the founders of the FEMISE Network (Euro-Mediterranean Forum of Economic Institutes) and of the EuroMed Non-Governmental Platform He also coordinated the Italian Platform of Euro-Mediterranean Civil Society. From 1982 to 1994, he was a member of the European Economic and Social Committee, where he was rapporteur in the fields of international policy, regional policy, and migrations. From 1989 to 1994 he actively engaged in a change of EU’s Mediterranean Policy, contributing through his Reports to the political debate that allowed the building of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership. From 1977 to 1994 he was a National Executive of CGIL (Italian General Confederation of Labour).