14 Facts About Aurelio Peccei

Aurelio Peccei spent his youth there, eventually graduating from the University of Turin with a degree in economics in 1930.

Aurelio Peccei was concurrently involved in various private and public efforts then underway to rebuild Italy, including the founding of Alitalia.

Aurelio Peccei settled in Argentina, where he was to live for a decade with his family.

Aurelio Peccei realised that it would make sense to start manufacturing locally and set up the Argentine subsidiary, Fiat-Concord, which built cars and tractors.

In 1958, with the backing of Fiat, Aurelio Peccei founded Italconsult, and became its chairman, a position he held until the 1970s when he became honorary president.

In 1964, Aurelio Peccei was asked to become president of Olivetti.

Aurelio Peccei was asked to give the keynote speech in Spanish at the group's first meeting in 1965, which is when the series of coincidences leading to the creation of the Club of Rome began.

Aurelio Peccei's speech caught the attention of Dean Rusk, then US Secretary of State, who had it translated into English and distributed at various meetings in Washington.

King wrote to Aurelio Peccei, passing on Gvishiani's address and his wish to invite him to the Soviet Union, but congratulating him on his paper and suggesting that they might meet sometime as they obviously shared similar concerns.

Aurelio Peccei made an offer to the Club of Rome to adapt his dynamic model to handle global issues.

In 1972, Aurelio Peccei was one of the principal founders of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, in Laxenburg, Austria.

Aurelio Peccei deliberately did not invite any of the major European powers, the US, or the Soviet Union so as to prevent the debate turning into a forum for national or ideological position statements.

Co-organizer of the meeting with Aurelio Peccei was the President of Colombia, Belisario Betancur.

Aurelio Peccei visited Las Gaviotas in the Vichada and endorsed the project of Paolo Lugari to regenerate the rainforest that was destroyed by decades of extensive cattle farming.