Emmanuele F. M. Emanuele
Professor and Lawyer
Emmanuele Francesco Maria Emanuele - descendant of one of the most illustrious ancient families
of Spain and Southern Italy, Baron of Culcasi and Noble of the Marquises of Villabianca - is a
Supreme Court lawyer, economist, expert in financial, tax and insurance issues and essayist. As a
youth he attended the Saint Anna and Saint Luigi schools and then G. Garibaldi high school. He
graduated in law and has been awarded a degree honoris causa in Fine Arts by the St. John’s
University in Rome, a degree honoris causa in Canon Law by the Pontificia Università Lateranense
in Rome and a degree honoris causa in Humane Letters by the American University of Rome. He
attended a course in Financial and Monetary Economics at the Harvard University in Cambridge,
Massachusetts U.S.A.
He is a renowned Professor Emeritus of Public Finance and Economic Development at the
Universidad Francisco de Vitoria in Madrid. Former professor of Public Finance at the LUISS Guido
Carli in Rome, professor of Public Finance and Tax law at the Link University of Malta and
extraordinary Professor of Public Finance and Economic Policy and the Università Europea of
Rome, the professor currently hold lectures on ‘Art and Finance’ in the master’s degree course on
Management of Artistic and Cultural resources in the UILM University. Former Vice Chairman and
member of the Board of Directors of the LUISS University, member of the Board of Directors of the
LUMSA University and of the Fondazione Civitas Lateranensis and member of the Policy
Committee of the Università Europea of Rome, of which he was also Vice Dean.
As a lawyer, he has been a tax and financial advisor, commissary for distressed companies on
behalf of the Ministry of Trade and Industry, commissioner, receiver and trustee of the Bankruptcy
Division of the Court of Rome and has acted as appraiser in mergers and acquisitions. He has
proved to be sensitive to social issues by patronising the House of Savoy’s interest to return to
Italy and opposing the Inland Revenues compulsory withdrawal of six per thousand from bank
accounts. During his career Professor Emanuele has held numerous offices as Chairman, Member
of the Board of Directors and Advisor to both public and private leading institutions, companies
and industries at an international level in the financial, chemical, steel and metal engineering and
building sectors. In the bank sector he held the offices of Vice Chairman of the Cassa di Risparmio
di Roma, Chairman of Leasing Roma and of S.i.g.r.e.c., member of the Board of Directors of
Medicredito del Lazio and member of the Board and subsequently Chairman of the institute
supervising the insurance industry ISVAP. He has been a chartered auditor since 1977.
In the field of Art and Culture he has, in time, held positions such as: Ambassador to UNESCO on
behalf of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, Member of the Board of the Associazione Amici
dell’Accademia dei Lincei, President of the Italian section of the Consiglio Mediterraneo della
Cultura, a NGO established under the aegis of UNESCO, President of the Fondazione Palazzo della
Civiltà Italiana, Chairman of the Azienda Speciale Palaexpo - which manages the Scuderie del
Quirinale and the Palazzo delle Esposizioni museums and the Casa del Jazz, Member of the Board
of Directors of the Fondazione Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, President of the Italian Pavilion
Intellectuals’ Committee for the fifty-fourth art exhibition in the 2011 Venice biennale; President
of the Art Section’s Scientific Committee for the exhibition of visual arts in the fifty-fourth edition
of the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto; member of the Board of Directors of the Fondazione
Biennale di Venezia and Advisor to the Minister for Cultural Heritage and Activities for the
preservation, enhancement and promotion of ancient and contemporary sacred art in relation to
State and ecclesiastic institution’s architectural and historic-artistic heritage until April 2013 and
Honorary President of the Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma.
He is currently a member of the Associazione Civita’s Chairman’s Committee of which he is also
Head of International Affairs and the Research Division, Chairman of Fondazione Roma and of
Fondazione Terzo Pilastro – Italia e Mediterraneo.
Author of numerous essays, the following books have been published in recent years. On the
subject of politics: Stato e cittadino. La rivoluzione necessaria (The State and citizens. A necessary
revolution)- (1996). On the subject of finance and the economy: L'imposizione dei redditi di
capitale delle persone fisiche residenti nei paesi dell'Unione Europea (Capital gains tax for
individuals resident in a European Union Member State)-(1998); Il non-profit strumento di sviluppo
economico e sociale (Non-profit organisations are an instrument for economic and social progress)
- (2001); Il ruolo dell'impresa pubblica: un dibattito ancora aperto. Le vicende dell'impresa bancaria
(The role of public companies: an ongoing debate. The vicissitudes of banking companies) -(2002);
Una possibile soluzione al modello del Welfare. Un approccio quantitativo (A possible solution to
the Welfare model. A quantitative approach)- (2002); Evoluzione e vicende delle Fondazioni di
origine bancaria (Evolution and vicissitudes of banking foundations)- (II edition 2006), Il terzo
pilastro. Il non-profit motore del nuovo welfare (The third pillar. Non-profit organizations drive the
new welfare system)- (2008) and Arte e Finanza (Art and Finance)- (2012). In the field of literature
(poetry) : “Un lungo Cammino” (2008) for which he was awarded the ‘Premio Margutta’ and “Le
Molte Terre” (2009) an anthology for which he was awarded the Premio Laurentum for poetry the
“Mondello International Prize for Literature – President’s special Prize” (2010), La Goccia e lo
Stelo” (2013) and most recently he has been awarded an Honorary Diploma by the World
Academy of Poetry.
The professor is a member of many cultural and religious associations including the Associazione S.
Maria Odigitria dei Siciliani, the International Association of Contemporary Art Curators, the
Rotary Club of Salerno of which he was an honorary member, the Rotary Clubs of Palermo, Roma
Cassia and Parioli of which he is an honorary member, the R. F. Kennedy Foundation of which he is
a member of the Leadership Council, the Pontificial Council for promoting the New Evangelization
of which he is a member of the study panel, the Pontificia Università Lateranense of which he is a
member of the Scientific Committee for international research called “Caritas in veritate. He is a
member the International Supporting Committee of the XXVIII Florence International Antiques
Biennial, member of the Founding and Organising Committee of the International Made in Italy
Forum held in the he Principality of Monaco, member of the Chairman’s Committee of the
Italiadecide research association, Honorary Member of the Associazione Amici di Santa Cecilia,
Honorary President of the Associazione Amici Italia Austria and recently became a member of the
Nobile Compagnia della Pace.
He is also a member of the following academies: Accademia Belgo-Española de Historia of which
he is Académico Correspondiente, the Maltese Academia Hispana of which he is Académico de
Mérito, the Accademia Teatina per le Scienze, the Jacques Maritain International Institute of which
he is a member of the Honorary Committee, the Accademia Raffaello di Urbino and the Casa di
Dante of which he is an honorary member, the Accademia Angelico Costantiniana of Literature,
Art and Science of which he is an honorary scholar and Honorary Member of the Accademia
Sapientia et Scientia in the Russian Centre of Science and Culture.
He has played numerous sports and excelled in fencing, a field in which he became a national
champion finishing in third place ex aequo in the Italian Youth Sabre Championships Absolute in
1958 and winning the title of Sicilian Foil Champion in 1960/1961. At the executive level, he
subsequently became Chairman of the Club Scherma Roma (Fencing Club of Roma), which won
four Italian Club Championships (the Nedo Nadi Trophy) during his term of office between 1988
and 1995. He has been Honorary General President of the Polisportiva Lazio (Lazio sports
association) since 2007 and in this capacity has supported the Club Scherma Ariccia (Fencing Club
of Ariccia), deciding that it should join the Polisportiva and supporting the club as it increasingly
attained success at a national level. For these reasons, he received the Premio Renzo Nostini
“Atleti Olimpici e Azzurri d’Italia” (2009); the fencing school of the S.S. Lazio Ariccia has been
named after the Professor, to whom the Vito Resse Memorial Trophy was also awarded in 2014,
the Federazione Italiana Scherma (Italian Fencing Federation) awarded him the “Elsa d’Oro prize
for: “the high esteem in which the world of fencing holds the Professor, who has always been
considered an ethical and image point of reference” and, again in his capacity as Honorary General
President of the SS Lazio, he has been awarded the 3rd Nostini Memorial Trophy as “custodian of
Laziality and Olympic ideals”. He has recently been awarded the Fédération Internationale
d’Escrime 100 years medal, the highest accolade of international fencing, for the following reason:
“to a person who has the merit of doing great things for fencing, for his sympathy and support for
the development and promotion of this sport”. Moreover, the Professor successfully engaged in
rowing attaining excellent results in the Yole race with crews of four and eight led by the famous
helmsman of the Italian team, Rubolotta, which came first in the Pergusa inter-regional
competitions held in 1957; open water swimming, including the crossing from the Port of Trapani
to the Gulf of Mondello; horse-riding, becoming an honorary member of the Società
Mitteleuropea della Caccia a Cavallo (Master of Foxhounds Association) in 2010 and the top
award-winning breeder of Spanish horses, as demonstrated by the prize conferred by the
Asociaciòn de Alta Escuela Espagnola en Italia in 2013; hunting, becoming ‘Gran Priore’ of the
Order of Saint Hubert; motor-racing, competing in the Club Italia’s classic car race ‘Targa Florio’
and the Winter Marathon. He is also a member of other sports associations such as the R.D.S
Rugby Roma, of which he was Vice-Chairman in the 1998 -2000 term and the Accademia Olimpica
Nazionale Italiana since 2007.
Professor Emanuele has received countless international acknowledgments for both his scientific
activities and constant attention to philanthropic and humanitarian issues, such as the ‘Premio
Allori del Palatino’ (2001); “Premio Calabria” (2001); ‘La colomba della pace’ award (2001);
‘Premio Anthai per la Solidarietà’ (2002); ‘International Life Award’ (2002); ‘Premio Federichino’
(2002); ‘Foyer International Prize’ (2005); ‘Le ragioni della Nuova Politica’ award (2006); ‘Premio
Campidoglio’ (2007); ‘Premio Simpatia’ (2007); ‘Premio Antonello da Messina’ (2008); ‘Premio
Arte e Cultura La Bagnaia (Bagnaia Arts and Culture Award)’; (2009); ‘Premio alla Cultura’ of the
publishing house (2009); the title of Ambassador “Musicorum Princeps” (2009); the ‘Premio Fata
Morgana’ (2010); ‘Il sogno di Piero’ prize (2010); XXX ‘Premio della Carità’ of the Associazione
Internazionale Regina Elena, Onlus (2011); ‘Premio Lucio Colletti’ (2011); the Italy-America
Chamber of Commerce award for ‘Business and Culture’ (2012); Centro Studi Lucio Colletti’s
“Premio Oriente- Scienza e libertà” for culture - (2012); Associazione “Guido Dorso” International
Award for economy (2012; Premio Amicizia 2012 of the Confimprese, the title of ‘Ambassador’ of
the Club Royal Fiaba conferred by the Associazione Fiaba Onlus (2012) the Puškin medal conferred
by the President of the Russian Federation (2013) the title of Spokesman and Goodwill
Ambassador of the Food and Agriculture Organisation in Italy and abroad, together with the
Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma, (2013), the John Paul II award of the Università Cattolica Sacro
Cuore, Rome (2013), the Ignazio Silone award for culture (2013), the Premio Accademico
Pedagogista (2013) the UNESCO Valldigna Award 2014 for his ten year commitment to fostering
dialogue between Mediterranean countries, the “Chimera di Icastica 2014” conferred by the City
of Arezzo, during the presentation of his book Arte e Finanza (Art and Finance)held in a municipal
hall, for ”his exceptional many-sidedness which has allowed him to cultivate almost all the fields of
human knowledge, from art to literature and from law to public finance whilst never neglecting
philanthropic activities, for all of which he has received countless national and international
accolades”; the Medal for Merit of the House of Angelo Comneno of Thessaly and Epirus awarded
by the Accademia Angelico Costantiniana (2014), the prize Capitani dell’anno Europa 2014” in the
Social Captains section (2014) and the Worshipful Queen Marie Clotilde Prize awarded by the
Associazione Internazionale Regina Elena, Onlus (2015).
In September 2009 the Government of the People’s Republic of China conferred him the honorary
citizenship of the city of Dujiangyan (Sichuan) and he was bestowed the honorary citizenship of
the of the City of Latina on the 18th January 2013.