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The Hon. Cristiano Maggipinto will speak on trends of economic and financial trade between Italy and Louisiana with special attention to current Italian investments in Louisiana. The Italy-Louisiana exchange has increased by 19% since Hurricane Katrina, showing the positive trend of our commercial relations in the last three years. Leopoldo Sposato will speak on public policy for internationalization of the Italian economy, Incentives for Foreign Direct Investments (“FDI”) in Italy and for Italian companies investing abroad, and structure and specialization of the Italian economy with emphasis on industrial districts and centers of excellence operating in Italy. Hon. Cristiano Maggipinto Born and raised in Italy, Cristiano Maggipinto is a graduate of the University of Florence with a major in Political Science. He entered the diplomatic career in 1989 and pursued his diplomatic training in international commerce and trade while assigned at the General Directorate for Economic Affairs of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 1993 he was posted at the Italian Embassy in Tel Aviv as First Counselor for Economic Affairs. In 1997 he was transferred to Germany where he was in charge of the section for emigration and social affairs first in Bonn then in Berlin, following the relocation of the Embassy to that city. In January 2001 he returned to Rome at the General Directorate for Italians Abroad and Emigration Policy. On January 30, 2006 he officially assumed the head of post of the Consulate General of Italy in Houston as Consul General. Leopoldo Sposato Leopoldo Sposato was born in Italy where he graduated from the University of Naples with a degree in Political Science. He is a distinguished postgraduate in International Politics & Economy at John Hopkins University in Bologna (1976). He got a degree in Economic Planning for Underdeveloped Countries from ISVE in Naples (1977) and went on to receive his major in Foreign Trade after attending the CORCE program of the Italian Institute for Foreign Trade (ICE). He began his career as a trade specialist with ICE in 1981. In 1988 he was assigned as Deputy Director of the Italian Trade Commission Office in Mumbay (India). In 1991 he was transferred to Libya where he served as Director of the ICE Office in Tripoli. In 2000, he was assigned to the ICE headquarters in Rome as Chief Project Manager for the promotion abroad of the High Technology Sector supervising the Environment, Biotechnology, ICT and Aerospace sections. On August 1, 2005 he became the Trade Commissioner at the Consulate General of Italy in Houston, opening the first Italian Trade Office in that city.
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