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Nationality
  
Italian

Role
  
Blogger

Name
  
Alberto Forchielli

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Born
  
28 December 1955 (age 68) (
1955-12-28
)

Institutions
  
Harvard University, University of Bologna

Alma mater
  
University of Bologna, Harvard University

Education
  
University of Bologna, Harvard University

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'Alberto Giacomo Forchielli (born 28 December 1955) is the first foreign blogger in China, a writer, and a businessman, expert in economics and international affairs with a particular focus on China, India, the United States, Germany, Southeast Asia, and Singapore.

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Family and education

His father, Paolo Forchielli (Urbino, 1920- Bologna, 1996), graduated with a degree in law (Scuola Normale di Pisa), was assigned to the 33rd battalion of the “Bergamo” group (2nd Regiment of the Alpine brigade “Tridentina”, the alpine artillery of the Tridentina division) as a second lieutenant and participated in the Russian Campaign, suffering battle wounds. He taught Civil Law as a member of the University of Bologna’s Law faculty, Private Law at the University of Ferrara, and Civil Rights at his alma mater, the University of Pisa. He authored numerous scientific publications. His mother, Maria Grazia (Bologna 1926- Imola 2011) was the only daughter of Giacomo Dal Monte Casoni (1890-1968), a lawyer from Imola and striking example of the newly formed Italian People’s Party, and then the Christian Democracy. He participated as a parliament member at the Italian Republic’s first legislature, and was president of the Imola Savings Bank from 1945 to 1968. Tommaso Casoni (1880-1933) also belongs to the Dal Monte Casoni family, a medical doctor and scientist who studied echinococcus.

After attending the Malpighi high school in Bologna, Alberto Forchielli with a bachelor’s degree cum lode in economics in 1978 from the University of Bologna. He graduated with an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1981. He was one of the first Italians to graduate in the 5th percentile.

He contributed in 1996 to the return of the remains of the corpse of soldier Harry Castilloux, a serial number, 35895836, and a date of birth September 24,1920, to his family in US. A grenade took him away on October 5, 1944, on the mountains over Bologna (Monte Battaglia), while he slept in his fox-hole, his hole in the dirt, exhausted from hours of machine gun. But Harry is back home the same, sixty years later, as an unfortunate Ulysses, thanks to Alberto Forchielli and Renzo Grandi.

Blogger

He is one of the most influential non-Chinese bloggers on the Chinese website, Caixin Media. The most important articles are then also republished on Caixin Media’s respective English-language site.

He also writes for his eponymous English-language blog.

Forchielli also writes for the economical news and website's Piano Inclinato on a weekly basis.

Publications

In 2015, he is author with Stefano Carpigiani of "Trova Lavoro Subito" (Find your job, Now!),

He wrote the preface for the book, Italians: Slaves by Choice, published by SEFER and written by Raffaele Mangano. He co-authored Quaderni dalla China (e non solo) with Romeo Orlandi, published by KKIEN Publ. Int.

In 2011, he wrote Un Anno A Shanghai 2011, which featured a preface by Romano Prodi, and wrote a second version in 2012, Un Anno A Shanghai 2012, with a preface by Fabio Tamburini. Both were published by Il Sole 24 Ore, Radiocor.

He also wrote Cina, la conoscenza e un fattore di successo, published by AREL with a preface by Enrico Letta.

Business

He began his collaboration with the MAC Group in the US as soon as he graduated from Harvard Business School.

He contributed to the liquidation of the Agency for the “Mezzogiorno” for Italy’s Ministry of Treasury, Balance, and Economic Programming. He was also a consultant to the restructuring program for Italy’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He worked as the general secretary for privatizations for the IRI Group in Rome. He was president of the Asia-Pacific region for Finmeccanica SpA in Singapore. He was a senior advisor to the World Bank in Washington DC in the 2000s, and was subsequently transferred to the European Investment Bank in Luxembourg to manage the financial restructuring of the private sector and development of infrastructure in the Balkans. He has worked for and sat on the boards of several Italian businesses, including: DS Data Systems (Parma), Datalogic (Bologna), Gruppo Industriale Tosoni (Verona), Network Computer House (Bologna), D&C (Bologna), Sourcing Solutions Ltd (Hong Kong), Cleantech Srl (Imola), and T-Island Srl (Imola).

He was a visiting professor of business administration for the faculty of economics and commerce at the University of Bologna, commissioner and member of the Protection of Intellectual Property and Global Commerce at the Global Forum’s commission on globalization. In 2004 he founded Osservatorio Asia (Bologna), a think-tank focused on Asia. He is also the founder and managing partner of Mandarin Capital Management S.A. He founded Cleantech Srl (Imola), a business active in the renewable energies sector with a particular focus on the development and management of large solar installations. In 2014, he guided and sponsored the expansion of the Roland Berger Foundation to Italy, an organization that provides individual support for underprivileged talented students.

References

Alberto Forchielli Wikipedia