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Rome, Chamber of Deputies, Gruppi Parlamentari Hall, 6 October 2023.
The Award
The Italy-USA Foundation promoted at the Italian Parliament the new edition of the America Award; it is a prestigious recognition of great civil and institutional work. The award is mainly seen as a means to acknowledge and encourage initiatives and work aimed at favoring relationships between Europe and the United States of America. Clearly famous, eminent figures that have distinguished themselves in their work and have achieved the utmost excellence in their respective fields of interested and activities, and important results in favor of transatlantic friendship, will be considered. The 2023 ceremony was held in Rome at the Chamber of Deputies, on Thursday October 6, at 5 PM. A special award will be conferred in memory of the Oscar winner Carlo Rambaldi. The Italy-USA Foundation, in the frame of the America Award, also conferred four medals of the Italian Parliament to three students of American universities: Ellie Rose Branson, Lorenzo Emanuel Di Franco Cascone, Christopher James Schwarten, Elizabeth Thorpe. The anchorwoman was the journalist Didi Leoni.
Winners
José Manuel Barroso, president Goldman Sachs International
Ferruccio de Bortoli, journalist
Angelica Krystle Donati, president ANCE Giovani
Francesca Fagnani, anchor
Ronn Moss, actor
Davide Oldani, chef
Luca Parmitano, astronaut
Stefano Pontecorvo, ambassador, president Leonardo
Jean Todt, UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy
Beatrice Venezi, conducting
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The Italy USA Foundation is an independent, non-profit, non-partisan institution established to bear witness to the friendship between Italians and the American people.
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