President's Page - Ivano Barberini

Mr Barberini was elected as ICA President by the General Assembly in Seoul in 2001 when he was President of Legacoop. He has over 40 years experience in the co-operative movement. He began his co-operative career in the consumer co-operative sector and held the position of President of Legacoop, a multisectoral organisation which represents over 10,000 co-operatives with more than 5 million members, from 1996 to 2002. Mr Barberini has also been very active in working with European and international movements promoting co-operative values and principles, collaboration among co-operatives and has also been involved in solidarity actions for developing countries and emergency aid. Ivan Barberini was elected unopposed for a second term at the Cartagena.

Presentations & Speeches

• ICA President Meets Iranian Minister of Co-operatives, Mohammad Abbasi in Rome (Italy), 6 June 2008
• ICA Extraordinary General Assembly, Rome (Italy), 5 June 2008   
• ICA General Assembly, ICAO Seminar & General Meeting, Singapore, 17 October 2007.
• ICA General Assembly, ICA Research Conference Committee, Singapore, October 2007
• ICA General Assembly, ICA Global Youth Conference, Singapore, 14 October 2007
• ICA General Assembly Review, Singapore, October 2007
• ICA General Assembly, Innovation in Co-operative Business, Singapore, 18-19 October 2007
• World Coop Leaders Symposium, Tokyo, Japan, 11 July 2007
• General Assembly of Cooperatives Europe, Prague, 18 June 2007
• Symposium on Reactivation of Co-operatives in Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) Countries, organised by the International Co-operative Alliance, Asia * the Pacific supported by the Ministry of Social Affairs, Government of UAE, 12 & 13 June 2007, Dubai, UAE
• Address to 8th Asia Pacific Ministers' Conference, 12-15 March 2007, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
• ICA - Europe Regional Assembly, 9 -11 November 2006, Manchester, UK
• Forum pour une Mondialisation Responsable, 25-28 October 2006, Lyon, France
• ICA Africa Regional Assembly, Arusha, Tanzania, Africa, October 5-6 2006
• Address by Mr. Ivano Barberini, President, International Co-operative Alliance at the Joint Inauguration of the 4th ICA Regional Co-operative Forum and the 7th ICA Regional Assembly, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 16 August, 2006

Articles

• Article on housing co-operatives in Italian magazine Specchio Economico, April 2008.
• Article on the experience of Italy's Consorzio Nazionale Servitzi (CNS) in Italian magazine Specchio Economico, March 2008.
• Article from Ivano Barberini published in the November 2006 issue of Specchio economico magazine
• For a Modern Image of Co-operation, July 2006
• Article in “Specchio Economico”, February 2005

ICA President on engagement for 2007

2006 was full of important events for the co-operative movement, at all levels. The ICA Regional assemblies generated very valuable suggestions and decisions for the future of our organization.

On behalf of the ICA Board, I wish to express satisfaction and my warmest thanks to all of you for your active participation. Working together is the very sense of co-operation. It strengthens the belonging, the ethic of responsibility, and the development of democracy; ultimately, it places the individual at the centre of the co-operative action. These values qualify co-operatives as the best-suited form of enterprise to manage complexity and to meet the problems of our times.

“ The world needs a strong and united co-operative movement focused on its high values…”

Ivano Barberini

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