Prodi to teach at China business school
(SHANGHAI) - Former European Commission president and Italian prime minister Romano Prodi has accepted a one-year professorship at a top business school in China.
The China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) said Wednesday that Prodi would visit its Shanghai and Beijing campuses next month to meet students and executives before he begins teaching later this year.
Prodi served twice as Italy's prime minister -- from 1996-1998 and again from 2006-2008. He was president of the European Commission from 1999-2004.
The 70-year-old, who started his academic career in 1966 teaching political science at Bologna University, has been a visiting professor at Harvard University and the Stanford Research Institute.
CEIBS has been ranked as one of the global top 30 business schools by the Financial Times.
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