Biographies of WPF official members.

Graduated in law at the University of Turin, he started a diplomatic career in 1961. Between 1964 and 1972 he worked as Permanent Representative of Italy for the CEE in Brussels and then became Consul of Italy in Bern. After being Head Secretary of the General Direction of the Economics Affairs, between 1972 and 1976, [...]

Former Prime Minister of India (1997-98), he has been Minister for Information and Broadcasting and Minister of Communications, Minister of Planning and Minister of Science and Technology. He chaired the SAARC Summit of South Asian Countries, Male, Maldives (1997), the World Democracy Conference, New Delhi (1998) and the Citizens’ Commission for South Asia. He served [...]

Former Prime Minister of Hungary, he was Under Secretary of State in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs until 1989 and Minister for Foreign Affairs (1989-90). One of the founders of the MSZP (Hungarian Socialist Party), he became its Chairman in 1990; from 1990 to 1993 he was Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee for Foreign [...]

Professor of Philosophy at the University of Murcia and Visiting Professor in many European and American Universities. He is founding member of the Grupo Tanger, Coordinator of the Observatory of Trend Analysis of the Fundación M. Botín and Director of the Foro de la Mundialización. He was Vice-President of the Patronato del Museo Nacional de [...]

Former President of Poland (1989-1990). He joined the Polish Army  in 1943 and he associated with the Polish United Workers’ Party, becoming a member of its Central Committee in 1964 and was soon appointed as Minister of Defence. He became National Secretary of the Party in 1981, when Lech Walesa’s movement, Solidarnosc, was starting to [...]

After working for the Group of Cooperative Credit (1973-1981), Thierry Jeantet was French InterMinisterial Vice-Delegate for Social Economy (1981-1985) and in 1985 he was given the task by the Prime Minister to report about “Modernisation of France about Social Economy”. He became General Secretary of the French Grouping of Societies for Mutual Insurance (Gema) between [...]

76th and 77th Prime Minister of Japan from August 1989 to November 1991,  Honorary Chairman of The Japanese Parliamentary Group on Global Poverty Eradication and Development Awareness, and EU-Japan Fest Japan Committee. Chairman of the Japan - Germany and Japan - Austria Parliamentary Friendship Association. Mr Kaifu graduated from Waseda University’s Department of Law in [...]

After graduating in Milan in education, she became City Councillor in Tortona and group leader of the socialist party (1980-1995) and then Administration Manager of the Province of Alessandria. She moved to work for the Regional Council of Piedmont initially as Manager of the Institutional Affairs Service and later as Head of the President’s Cabinet. [...]

Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Republic of China. Engineer for formation, after covering several important charges in his country, between 1979 and 1983 he served as Vice-Minister and Minister of Power Industry, and Secretary of the Leading Party Members’ Group of the Ministry of Power Industry, and Vice-Minister and Deputy Secretary [...]

He is the Italian National Coordinator of the Tavola della Pace (Table for Peace), the body that every two years organizes the march for peace between Perugia and Assisi (Italy)joined by hundreds of lay and religious organisations, local authorities and hundred thousands of people. He is also Director of the Co-ordination of Local Authorities for [...]