The former President of CASE and current CASE Fellow Dr. Luca Barbone, aged 62, passed away on September 1, 2015 after short but dramatic struggle with cancer.
An Italian national but man of the world, Dr. Barbone grew up in Milan and graduated from Bocconi University in 1976. In 1985 he obtained a Ph.D. degree in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After three years spent with the OECD he moved to the World Bank in 1988 when he worked for the next 23 years in various capacities. His contacts with CASE started in the first half of 1990s while …read more