Emilio D'Orazio

CSR in Italy

Emilio D'Orazio has been Director of Politeia Centre for Ethics and Public Choices since 1995. Politeia is a non-profit organisation based in Milan, founded in 1983 with the purpose of promoting theoretical discussion in Italy on the relationship between ethics and public choices. The centre's research programmes include political and moral theory, business ethics and corporate social responsibility, environmental ethics, bioethics, computer ethics, and science, policy analysis and law. Emilio D'Orazio teaches courses in business ethics and CSR.

He has been active as a consultant for Italian companies in the field of corporate ethics and CSR since the early nineties, served as a member of the editorial board of “Etica degli Affari e delle Professioni”, the first European journal of business ethics and was Secretary General of the Italian Business Ethics Network . He is a member of the Ethical Committee of Pioneer Investments (Gruppo Unicredito Italiano), and is involved in developing the POLITEIA Annual Forum on Business Ethics and CSR in a Global Economy. The Forum is organised by the Research Centre Politeia in cooperation with the University of Milan and a Promoting Committee composed of several well-known Italian companies and organisations.

He is the co-coordinator of the Masters degree in CSR at Associazione Campus Studi del Mediterraneo, Lucca.