Paolo Costa

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Paolo Costa (born July 23, 1943 in Venice ) is an Italian economist and politician. From 1992 to 1996 he was rector of the University of Venice . From 1999 to 2009 he was a member of the European Parliament , where he belonged to the Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe , and from 2000 to 2005 Mayor of Venice . From 2008 to 2017 he was Head of the Venice Port Authority.

Life

Economist

Costa studied economics at the University of Venice (Ca 'Foscari), where he graduated in 1968. From 1972 to 1977 he taught as a lecturer in spatial planning and regional economy at the University of Padua , then until 1980 as a lecturer in political economy at the University of Venice. In 1980 he became a full professor for urban and regional economics at the Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia (IUAV). In 1982 he moved back to Ca 'Foscari, where he initially held a professorship for political economy, from 1984 for economic planning and from 1995 to 2001 for regional economy. Visiting professorships and research stays took him to the University of Reading (1975) and New York University (1980, 1983 and 1988).

From 1989 to 1992 he was Vice Rector, then Rector of the University of Venice until 1996. He was vice-chairman of the Italian Rectors 'Conference (CRUI) and Italian representative in the Association of Rectors' Conferences of the European Union (Eurec). He was Dean of the Academic Council of Venice International University and Vice President of the Council of the United Nations University in Tokyo from 1993 to 1998 .

Political career

At the same time, Costa was politically active, first in the Movimento per l'Ulivo , in which the supporters of Romano Prodis came together, then in the social liberal parties I Democratici (1999–2002) and La Margherita (2002–2007), from 2007 in the middle left-rallying party Partito Democratico . From 1996 to 1998 he was Minister for Public Works in Prodi's first cabinet .

In the European elections in 1999 , Costa was elected to the European Parliament , where he was deputy chairman of the liberal ELDR group until 2004 . From 2003 he also headed the Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism. In the 2004 European elections , he was re-elected as a member of the European Parliament. Until he left the EU Parliament in 2009, he served as a board member of the liberal parliamentary group, which had since been renamed ALDE , and as chairman of the Committee on Transport and Tourism (TRAN).

Mayor of Venice

From 1997 to 2000 he was a member of the Venetian city council, and in 2000 he succeeded Massimo Cacciaris as mayor of Venice. Costa was the candidate of the center-left alliance L'Ulivo and won the runoff election against Renato Brunetta of Forza Italia with 56%. As mayor, he was also president of the foundation for the Teatro La Fenice , which was rebuilt after the fire in 1996 and was re-inaugurated in 2003, vice-president of the Biennale and vice-president of the Associazione Nazionale Comuni Italiani . In 2004 he proposed an underground connection between Venice and the mainland. In the local elections in 2005, Costa decided not to run again, but instead supported Cacciaris for a second term, who replaced him again.

In 2007, the second Romano Prodi administration appointed Costa as special envoy for the expansion of the US military base at Vicenza airfield .

President of the Port Authority

Costa became Port Director in July 2008, d. H. President of the Autorità Portuale di Venezia , founded in 1996 , and President of the Adriatic Ports Association.

In 2010 he presented the government in Rome with a plan for a port in the Adriatic in front of the Lido, which is to be built for 1.4 billion euros so as not to destroy the lagoon, which is endangered by the increasing tanker traffic. This port will be about 14 km from the lagoon and allow oil to be pumped out of tankers into a pipeline that has yet to be built. This is to bring the oil to Marghera, which is to be expanded accordingly, and to Mantua. In addition, according to a contract from 2011, a biogas plant based on algae is to be built in Pellestrina , which will deliver 40 to 50 MW of electricity.

Activity in the private sector

Since 2010, Costa has been Chairman of the Board of Directors of SPEA Engineering spa , which develops and manufactures Automatic Test Equipment . Since 2013 he has been a board member of the Italian Society for Transport Policy (SIpoTra). Swit 2016 he is a member of the supervisory board of Aéroport Nice Côte d'Azur and, since 2017 , a member of the board of trustees of the Fondazione di Venezia , which belongs to the Sparkasse Venice.

Honors

In 1998 he was awarded the Grand Cross of Merit of the Italian Republic . In 2008 he received the Great Order of Merit of the Province of South Tyrol .

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ a b c Curriculum Vitae Paolo Costa , Università Ca 'Foscari di Venezia, accessed on June 28, 2019.
  2. ↑ Alberto Vitucci: Venice madness, A “tube” under the lagoon ( Memento from June 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), Eddyburg, July 6, 2004.
  3. ^ New port in Venice , venedig-netz.de
  4. ↑ Accordo per produrre energia dalle alghe per il porto di Venezia ( Memento of July 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), inforMARE, February 23, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Costa, Paolo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian politician, MEP
DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Venice