Vittorio Prodi (19 May 1937 – 29 July 2023) was an Italian politician who served as a

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from 2004 until 2014. He was a member of the

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Biography

Prodi was born in

Reggio Emilia Reggio nell'Emilia (; ), usually referred to as Reggio Emilia, or simply Reggio by its inhabitants, and known until Unification of Italy, 1861 as Reggio di Lombardia, is a city in northern Italy, in the Emilia-Romagna region. It has about 172,51 ...

in 1937, and was one of the former prime minister

Romano Prodi Romano Prodi (; born 9 August 1939) is an Italian politician who served as President of the European Commission from 1999 to 2004 and twice as Prime Minister of Italy, from 1996 to 1998, and again from 2006 to 2008. Prodi is considered the fo ...

's eight siblings. In the

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, Prodi served on the

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. He was also a substitute for the

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, a member of the Delegation for relations with the United States, and a substitute for the Delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China. He represented the European Parliament at the

2008 United Nations Climate Change Conference The 2008 United Nations Climate Change Conference took place at PIF Congress Centre, Poznań International Fair (PIF), in Poznań, Poland, between December 1 and December 12, 2008. Representatives from over 180 countries attended along with obse ...

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, Poland. He died on 29 July 2023, at the age of 86.

Career

* 1959: Graduated in

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at the

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* 1970:

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in nuclear measurements * since 1983: associate

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in the Physics Department of the

* 1995–2004: President of the

Province of Bologna The province of Bologna () was a province in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy. Its provincial capital was the city of Bologna. The province of Bologna covered an area of and had a total population of 1,004,323 inhabitants as of 31 December 2014 ...

* 2001–2004: Member of the provincial representation of the conference State – Cities – Local Governments and of the Unified Conference (State, Cities, Local Governments, and Regions) * Author of numerous publications and of five international patents

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* * * * 1937 births 2023 deaths 20th-century Italian physicists Academic staff of the University of Bologna Democratic Party (Italy) MEPs Democratic Party (Italy) politicians Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy politicians Italian People's Party (1994) politicians MEPs for Italy 2004–2009 MEPs for Italy 2009–2014 People from Reggio Emilia Presidents of the Province of Bologna Romano Prodi University of Bologna alumni {{Italy-politician-DemocraticPartyItaly-stub

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