Our Common Humanity in the Information Age. Principles and Values for Development

Prof. Dominick Salvatore, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor and Director of Ph.D. 
Program in Economics, Fordham University

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Distinguished Professor and Director of the Ph.D. Program in Economics, Fordham 
University in New York. President of North American Economic and Finance 
Association. Past President of International Trade and Finance Association and Chair of 
Economics Section of New York Academy of Sciences. Consultant: United Nations, 
World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Economic Policy Institute. “Achievement 
Award,” The City University of New York. “Honorary Professor,” Shanghai Finance 
University, 2005. Strathmore’s Professional of the Year in Education, 2006. Worked for a 
decade with Lawrence Klein (1980 Economics Nobel) on the UN Project “Population 
Growth and Economic Development”.
Among the 45 books authored or edited are: Income Distribution (Oxford University 
Press, 2006; CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book Award, 2006), The Future of the 
International Monetary System (Kluwer, 1999), The International System between 
Integration and Neo-Protectionism (Macmillan, 1996); Development Economics 
(Greenwood Press, 1994); Protectionism and World Welfare (Cambridge University 
Press, 1993); African Development Prospects (United Nations, 1989).
Published extensively in the leading economics journals; gave more than 300 lectures 
around the world. Co -editor: Open Economies Review, Journal of Policy Modeling, 
Associate Editor: American Economist. Visiting Professor: Universities of Vienna, 
Krems; Rome, Triest; Cairo, Pretoria; Fudan, Shanghai, Peking, Tsinghua. Listed among 
the 50 most successful graduates of The City College of New York (CCNY).
Roberto Savio, Founder and Managing Director , Inter Press Service 
Roberto Savio has graduated in Economics at the University of Parma and was then 
Director for News Services for Latin America with RAI, Italy's national broadcaster, and 
in 1964 he founded Inter Press Service (IPS), a non-profit co-operative of journalists and 
experts specialising in global communications for development, acknowledged by the 
UN as holding NGO consultative status with ECOSOC. 
Savio is founder and managing director of the Technological Information Pilot System 
(TIPS), a major UN project to implement and foster technological and economic co-
operation between developing countries. He has also been actively involved at the 
technical level with international communication issues, introducing the Development 
Press Bulletin Service Tariff in UNESCO's International Commission for the Study of 
Communication Problems.
He is Secretary General Emeritus of the Society for International Development (SID), 
and Senior Advisor for Strategies and Communication to the Director General of the 

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International Labour Organization and Member of the Board of Directors of the North-
South Centre of the Council of Europe. Requested to take part in the International 
Committee of Porto Alegre World Social Forum since it was established, he is 
Coordinator of the "Media, Culture and Counter-Hegemony" thematic area of the III 
World Fora in 2003 and Secretary General the foundation of Media Watch International, 
based in Paris. He received a number of awards for TV documentaries, produced films 
and published several books, the latest of which is Verbo America, dealing with the 
cultural identity of Latin America.