SPEAKER'S PROFILES

Dario Casati

Dario Casati, 65, since 2001 is the deputy vice rector of the Università degli Studi di Milano (Milano University) and full professor of Agricultural  Economy and  policy within the Faculty of Agriculture of the said university. He was the Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture from 1986 to 1998  and from  1998 to 2004 Director of the Department of Agricultural, Agro-Alimentary and Environmental Economy and Politics. He is a member of several research boards and of scientific technical committees of the EU, of the Ministry of Agriculture, of the Lombardy Region, of several provincial administrations and numerous other entities and bodies. He is a member of the Academy of Georgofili, of the Agricultural academy of Bologna, of the Agrarian Society of Lombardy and a member of the principal associations of agrarian economists. He participated in setting up the 1986/90 National Agricultural Plan, the  2000-2006 Lombardy Region Agricultural Plan and the Piedmont District Rice  Plan.
His scientific activity mainly concerns  the Common Agricultural Policy of the European Union, national and regional agricultural policies; agricultural economy and policy of the development; economy of the food industry; economy of agricultural sectors like cereals, rice and anmal production; economic analyses of the territory and environment in parks and protected areas; economy of innovation and of biotechnologies in agriculture.
He is the author of many scientific publications and collaborates with journals of the sector and the main daily newspapers. He is a member of the scientific committee of several journals in the sector.
Milan, June 2008 

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