| |
|
|
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
Prominent lawyer and journalist Cristina Rapisarda Sassoon has worked tenaciously to protect the environment, galvanising Italian business and industry to tackle such issues as waste management and pollution. "It is industry’s responsibility to develop techniques that prevent and eliminate pollution," says Rapisarda Sassoon.
As secretary general and managing director of the Italian Institute for the Environment since 1998, the highly successful legal consultant has urged legislators and business people to accept proven environmental management systems. She traces her ability to communicate with the public to her teenage years when she performed internationally with the folk group, Nuovo Canzoniere Italiano. Following this, she developed her legal skills at the State University of Milan where she graduated summa cum laude in law, then teaching law at Pavia State University and as a professor of environmental law at Milan’s Technical University, a position she held from 1998 to 2000.
A professional journalist since 1995, Rapisarda Sassoon first headed the legal section of the magazine Impresa Ambiente (Enterprise and Environment) in 1989 and for five years was its editor-in-chief. Through this monthly publication, she targeted thousands of small businesses with her pragmatic environmental messages.
Since 1999, she has been editor-in-chief of the bimonthly Ambiente e Sviluppo (Environment and Development). Despite her busy career, she has managed to write numerous books and articles on environmental themes and maintain a close relationship with her journalist husband and their two teenage sons. Her manual on environmental laws will be published soon. |
|
|
|
