Patron, World Sustainability Forum
Roberto Savio, Italian and Argentinian, is an economist and international analyst. He was the founder in 1964 of Inter Press Service, dedicated to give the voice to the South of the world in a global context. He has been asked by UNDP to set up a South-South network for Economic Cooperation among Developing Countries, DEVNET. IPS worked as the carrier of the press agencies of the Non Aligned Movement and with Unesco support, created ASIN, a regional organisation of the national press agencies of Latin America. He has been Secretary General of the Society for International Development, SID. He was deputy press offices with the Italian PM Aldo Moro.He has worked at ILO as senior adviser of the Director General. He is presently Vice-president for International Affairs of the European Center for Peace and Development, ECPD, created by the General Assembly of the UN, and he is the chairman of Other News, a non profit association that runs a daily service on global issues for Academicians, activists, and global citizens.