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October 29th

InterContinental Shanghai Expo

1188 Xueye Road, Pudong Shanghai

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Illy

Riccardo ILLY

Chairman, Illy Group

Riccardo Illy joined the family firm in 1977 and dedicated himself to the re-organisation of the commercial structure.
In his position as sales director Italy, he developed the marketing and public relations activity and produced the first important advertising campaigns to receive international recognition. In the second half of the 1980s, he began the development in the foodstuffs and office sectors.
Subsequently, he held the post of international sales director and re-organised the structure of the subsidiary companies. In 1992, he became managing director and in 1995, vice-president.
Riccardo Illy is also journalist and author of a book, “Dal Caffè all’Espresso” published by Mondadori and translated in English, French and German, for which volume his brother Francesco produced the iconographic content.
In 2006 he writes “La Rana cinese” (“The chinese frog”) and in 2008 “Così perdiamo il Nord” “So we lose the north”.
In the past he has held the post of vice-president of the Associazione degli Industriali di Trieste and of president of the Seminario Permanente Veronelli.
From 1993 to 2000, he was Mayor of Trieste and in 2001 was elected MP in the Italian Parliament. In 2003, he was elected President of the Regione Autonoma Friuli-Venezia Giulia, in charge until April 2008. In 2004, he was elected President of the Assembly of the European Regions.
From 1997 to 2002, he was president of the Comitato Promotore della Direttrice Ferroviaria Europea Transpadana (a committee dedicated to promoting a fast trans-European railway line via Northern Italy).
In 2000, the President of the Republic of Austria conferred him the “Golden Honorary Title”. In the same year, he was awarded the degree Honoris Causa in Political Sciences at the University of Trieste.
In 2009, Riccardo Illy was appointed Grande Ufficiale by the President of the Italian Republic.
Riccardo Illy was born in 1955, is married and has a daughter.
Since 2004 he is Chairman of Gruppo Illy.