Editor - Director, The European Papers on the New Welfare - The Risk Institute
Short Bio:
Orio Giarini has been a Fellow of WAAS and a member of the Executive Committee of SEED since 2005 as well as founding Editor-in-Chief of Cadmus Journal, a cooperative venture between SEED and the Risk Institute, Geneva. He is a member of the Club of Rome and served on its Executive Committee (1982-86) and also founding Editor-in-Chief of European Papers for the New Welfare, a journal focusing on economic and social welfare issues related to aging. As an economist, his fundamental endeavor has been to understand economy as a basic human activity founded on technological and cultural developments. His years as director of the techno-economic division at the Battelle Institute in Geneva has provided him with invaluable insights. He has contributed to the organization of the first conference of the Club of Rome in Bern and had many opportunities to interact with great scientists such as Lew Kowarsky, Victor and his brother Walter Weisskopf, Karl Popper and others. He was founding Secretary General of Geneva Association (1973-2001), the world’s premier research center on economic issues related to risk and insurance, whose members include 90 CEOs of the world’s major insurance companies in their personal capacity. In parallel he taught a course at the University of Geneva on what has since become known as Service Economics benefitting from his professional experiences, and helping to formulate little by little a coherent view (and theory) of contemporary macro-economics. All this made it possible to publish 12 books, including four reports to the Club of Rome (prefaced by Aurelio Peccei and then Alexander King) and the major one, The Limits to Certainty prefaced by Ilya Prigogine. In 1975 he founded The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance (now published by Palgrave and edited by the Geneva Association).
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