State Capacity, Natural Resources and Conflict in the DRC: a Discussion in Memory of Luca Attanasio

LEAP and Bocconi Alumni are organizing the event: "State capacity, natural resources and conflict in the DRC. A discussion in memory of Luca Attanasio." to pay tribute to the late Luca Attanasio, Italian Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Alumnus Bocconi.

Gianmario Verona and Bruno Busacca will open the event by remembering Luca as a student and Alumnus, and presenting the Scholarship Fund set up in his memory.

Subsequently, Eliana La Ferrara will chair the discussion, introducing speeches from James Robinson (University of Chicago), Raul Sanchez de la Sierra (University of Chicago), and Judith Verweijen (University of Sheffield) on the economic and political situation of the DRC.

At the end, Luca’s father, Salvatore Attanasio, will join Gianmario Verona for a simple remembrance ceremony.

The event will be held online on June 15, from 4 to 6 pm CEST.

You can download the program here.

To participate, please register at this link: https://forms.unibocconi.it/index.php?rif_quest=1020