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At a conference in Bocconi on February 5, friends, professionals, and lifelong colleagues will remember the academic and professional contribution of the professor who passed away one year ago

A life divided between teaching, academic research, and professional practice, with a significant contribution to companies and institutions. One year after his death, Bocconi commemorates Luigi Guatri at a conference (9:30 a.m., Aula Franceschi, Via Sarfatti 25). The event bears an evocative title—“Come lo abbiamo conosciuto, come lo ricordiamo oggi”—which ideally echoes the publications in which Guatri himself recounted the many figures from academia and business whom he encountered along his professional journey. Among the participants, together with Guatri’s family, will be Mario Monti and Bocconi President Andrea Sironi, as well as Gaetano Presti (Bank of Italy), Marco Tronchetti Provera (Pirelli), Marco Villano (Studio Associato CGV), and Bocconi professors Mauro Bini, Gualtiero Brugger, Vittorio Coda, Mario Massari, and Salvatore Vicari.

Born in Trezzo sull'Adda on 19 September 1927, Luigi Guatri graduated with honors from Bocconi University with a degree in Economics and Management in 1949. Studying under the famous economist Gino Zappa, he began his academic career as an assistant to the professor of General and Applied Accounting. He taught at the University of Genoa and the University of Parma, and in 1969 he returned to Bocconi as a Full Professor, holding roles of increasing responsibility: director of various institutes, Managing Director from 1974 to 1999 ("difficult times for Bocconi's finances, these were also the years of the banker Roberto Calvi, at the time Vice President under Giovanni Spadolini's presidency,” wrote Guatri), Rector from 1984 to 1989 and Vice President from 1999 to 2018. In 2003, the Italian Ministry of University and Scientific Research named him Professor Emeritus. In June 2005, Professor Guatri was appointed President of the Amici della Bocconi Association, a position he held until 2018, when he was appointed Honorary President of both the Javotte Bocconi Institute and Bocconi University. Guatri also founded the publishing house Egea in 1988. After serving as its President for several years, he then became Honorary President.

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