Stora reformer planeras för Vatikanens finansiella organisation och medieorgan
(09.07.2014) Kardinal Pell ledde en presskonferens för att presentera den "nya ekonomiska
ramen för den Heliga Stolen", som på onsdagen hölls i den Heliga stolens pressrum.
Kardinal Pell, som är prefekt för det nya ekonomisekretariatet, meddelade flera viktiga
nya initiativ för att förbättra den ekonomiska och administrativa förvaltningen av
den Heliga Stolen och Vatikanstaten.
Dessa förändringar följer en detaljerad
analys av resultaten och rekommendationerna från den Påvliga kommissionen för organisationen
av den Heliga stolens ekonomiska och administrativa struktur (COSEA) och anses vara
nödvändiga för att åtgärda vissa brister och risker, samtidigt som de skapar en ny
plattform för en förbättrad ekonomisk förvaltning i framtiden.
"Det finns många
utmaningar och mycket arbete framför oss. Det framgår av COSEA:s arbete att ett antal
frågor, till exempel överföringen av APSA:s allmänna avdelning, pensionsfonden, Vatikanens
Media och IOR måste åtgärdas snarast. Den Helige Fadern har gjort klart att dessa
förändringar bör implementeras så snabbt som möjligt", sa kardinalen.
Kardinal
Pell tillkännagav också inrättandet av en liten Project Management Office (PMO), som
ska ledas av Mr. Danny Casey, tidigare Business Manager för ärkestiftet Sydney, för
att genomföra och presentera en del av de föreslagna ändringarna.
Nedan finns
den officiella engelska texten som utgavs av den Heliga stolen presstjänst, som beskriver
de ändringar som meddelades kl. 12:00 under presskonferensen.
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Press Conference for the presentation of the New Economic Framework for the Holy See
Introduction
by Cardinal George Pell
Attachments
At 12 noon today, in the Aula Giovanni
Paolo II of the Holy See Press Office, a press conference will be held on the theme:
“New economic framework for the Holy See”.
Speakers: Cardinal George Pell,
Prefect of the Secretariat for the Economy; Joseph F.X. Zahra, Deputy Coordinator
of the Council for the Economy; Jean-Baptiste de Franssu, Member of the Council for
the Economy; Ernst von Freyberg, President of the Supervisory Council of the Institute
for the Works of Religion (IOR).
Introduction by Cardinal George Pell
His
Eminence Cardinal George Pell, the Cardinal Prefect of the Secretariat for the Economy
today announced several important new initiatives to improve the economic and administrative
management of the Holy See and Vatican City State.
These changes initiated
by the new Secretariat for the Economy follow detailed analysis of the findings and
recommendations of Pontificia Commissione Referente di Studio e di Indirizzo sull'Organizzazione
della Struttura Economico-Amministrativa della Santa Sede (COSEA) and are considered
essential to address identified weaknesses and risks while also creating a new platform
for improved economic management in the future.
All changes have been endorsed
at the recent meetings of the Council for the Economy (July 5) and the Council of
Cardinals (July 1 - 4) and approved by the Holy Father.
The changes affect:
1.
APSA
2. PENSION FUND
3. VATICAN MEDIA
4. IOR
Cardinal
Pell said he was delighted the Holy Father had approved these important initiatives
and he and the Council for the Economy are grateful for his regular input and constant
support.
“There are many challenges and much work ahead. It is clear from the
work of COSEA that a number of issues, such as the transfer of APSA's Ordinary Section,
Pension Fund, Vatican Media and IOR need to be addressed urgently. The Holy Father
has made it clear these changes should move forward expeditiously.”
The Cardinal
Prefect also announced the establishment of a small Project Management Office (PMO),
led by Mr. Danny Casey formerly Business Manager of the Sydney archdiocese, to implement
and introduce some of the proposed changes beginning with the transfer of APSA's Ordinary
Section into the Secretariat for the Economy. The PMO will report directly to the
Prefect of the Secretariat for the Economy.
The Secretariat for the Economy
will begin in September 2014 to prepare the budget for 2015. The goal is for each
dicastery and administration to prepare a budget to be followed. Expenditure (within
agreed framework) will be the responsibility of each dicastery and administration.
Expenditure will be checked against the budgets during 2015 and any over-expenditure
will be the responsibility of the dicastery and administration involved.
“We
look forward to moving ahead with this work in the coming months.”
[01131-02.01]
[Original text: English]
Attachments
1. APSA
The Ordinary
Section of APSA is transferred to the Secretariat for the Economy. This is an important
step to enable the Secretariat for the Economy to exercise its responsibilities of
economic control and vigilance over the agencies of the Holy See, including policies
and procedures concerning purchasing and the suitable allocation of human resources
as defined in the Motu Proprio Fidelis Dispensator et Prudens.
The remaining
staff of APSA will begin to focus exclusively on its role as a Treasury for the Holy
See and the Vatican City State. A key early task will be continuing the work of establishing
close relationships with all major Central banks as recommended by MoneyVal, which
will continue to ensure the liquidity and financial stability of the Holy See. All
sovereign institutions will have an account at APSA which will serve as a Treasury
for them.
2. PENSION FUND
The Council for the Economy has appointed
a technical committee to study the situation of the Pension Fund and to make proposals
to the Council for the Economy before the end of the year. The Council recognized
and acknowledged that the pensions being paid today and for the next generation are
safe but the fund needs to ensure there are sufficient funds for future generations
in a changing environment. Many Western countries have faced challenges in their pension
system over the last years. It is anticipated that new statutes would be prepared
by the end of 2014 to adapt the Pension Fund's organization to the new economic-administrative
structure of the Holy See. The technical committee will be headed by the Council's
Prelate Secretary Mons. Brian Ferme. Four lay experts will contribute their professional
experience and expertise: Mr. Bernhard Kotanko (Austria), Mr. Andrea Lesca (Italy),
Mr. Antoine de Salins (France), Prof. Nino Savelli (Italy). In addition, there will
be representatives from of the Council for the Economy, the Secretariat of State and
the Pension Fund.
Further background on the 4 lay experts in the technical
commission of the Pension Fund
Bernhard Kotanko, Austrian, is a Member of of
the Board of Directors at Oliver Wyman AG, Switzerland, and a Managing Director of
Oliver Wyman's global Financial Services Group, a renowned consulting firm working
for the leading private and public institutions globally. He is heading the EMEA insurance
practice.
Andrea Lesca, Italian, is the General Manager of Intesa Sanpaolo
Previdenza SpA, the Pension Fund Company of the Intesa Sanpaolo Group. He has a wide
experience in managing pension fund operations. In addition he has been part of a
technical working Group at the Italian Ministry for Welfare for the implementation
of new regulations on pension funds. He holds a degree in General Economics from the
University of Pavia.
Antoine de Salins, French, is the Deputy General Manager
and Chief Investment Officer of the asset management company of Groupama Group. Between
2003 and 2011 he was the executive director of the French Reserve Fund, a public institution
managing the assets for employees of the French private sector.
Prof. Nino
Savelli, Italian, is professor of Risk Theory at the Faculty of Banking, Financial
and Insurance Sciences of the Catholic University in Milan. He graduated in Statistical
and Actuarial Sciences at the University of Rome La Sapienza with a PhD in Actuarial
Sciences and is teaching in the field of Actuarial Sciences and Risk Management. Before
teaching he served for more than 10 years in the Italian Insurance Supervisory Authority
and in October 2013 he was appointed by the supervisory board of EIOPA (European Insurance
and Occupational Pensions Authority) as academic member of IRSG - Insurance and Reinsurance
Stakeholder Group, located in Frankfurt.
3. VATICAN MEDIA
A committee
has been appointed to propose reforms for the Vatican Media. The committee will publish
a report and a reform plan within the next 12 months after considering the COSEA report.
The objectives are to adapt the Holy See media to changing media consumption trends,
enhance coordination and achieve progressively and sensitively substantial financial
savings. Building on the recent positive experiences with initiatives such as the
Pope App and the Holy Father's Twitter Account, digital channels will be strengthened
to ensure the Holy Father's messages reach more of the faithful around the world,
especially young people.
The members of the committee come from Vatican staff
and from senior international experts. They have been chosen for their expertise in
communications while reflecting the universality of the Catholic Church.
Senior
international experts: Lord Christopher Patten (UK, will act as President of the committee),
Mr. Gregory Erlandson (USA), Ms. Daniela Frank (Germany), Fr. Eric Salobir OP (France),
Ms. Leticia Soberon (Spain, Mexico), and Mr. George Yeo (Singapore).
Vatican
staff: Mons. Paul Tighe (Secretary of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications,
will act as Secretary of the committee), Giacomo Ghisani (Vatican Radio), Mons. Carlo
Maria Polvani (Secretariat of State), Mons. Lucio Adrián Ruiz (Vatican Internet Service)
and Prof. Giovanni Maria Vian (L'Osservatore Romano).
Further background on
the members of the committee on Vatican Media
Senior international experts
Lord
Christopher Patten of Barnes is Chancellor of Oxford University and Co-Chair of the
UK-India Round Table.
Lord Patten was a Member of Parliament from 1979 to
1992. He was a Minister in the Northern Ireland Office and Department of Education
and became Minister for Overseas Development in 1986. He became Secretary of State
for the Environment in 1989 and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Chairman
of the Conservative Party in 1990. He was made a Privy Counsellor in 1989 and a Companion
of Honour in 1998.
Lord Patten was appointed Governor of Hong Kong in April
1992, a position he held until 1997, overseeing the return of Hong Kong to China.
He was Chairman of the Independent Commission on Policing for Northern Ireland set
up under the Good Friday Peace Agreement which reported in 1999. In September 1999
he became European Commissioner for External Relations, a post he held until November
2004. On leaving office in Brussels he was made a Life Peer and took his seat in the
House of Lords in January 2005.
He was Chancellor of Newcastle University from
1998 – 2008 and was elected Chancellor of Oxford University in 2003. He was Chairman
of the BBC Trust from 2011-2014.
Lord Patten has written a number of best selling
books on international politics. He is married to Lavender, a barrister and family
mediator, and has three married daughters and eight grand-children.
Gregory
Erlandson is president and publisher of the Our Sunday Visitor Publishing Division,
a non-profit Catholic company that publishes OSV Newsweekly, a national weekly Catholic
newspaper, as well as magazines, books, parish resources and curricula for Catholic
schools and parishes. Our Sunday Visitor also publishes the English language edition
of L’Osservatore Romano for North America.
Erlandson has worked in the Catholic
press for more than 30 years. He served as president of the Catholic Press Association
of the United States and Canada from 2011 to 2013 and was recently reelected to his
third term as a member of the board of directors of the CPA. He was co-host of the
2012 Catholic Media Conference in Indianapolis.
Before serving as editor of
the OSV Newsweekly national Catholic newspaper and as editor in chief of the Publishing
Division of Our Sunday Visitor, Erlandson reported from the Rome bureau of Catholic
News Service (1986-1989). From 1983 to 1985 he was news editor for the National Catholic
Register. He attended The Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California
at Berkeley.
He is currently a consultor for the Pontifical Council for Social
Communications. Greg has served two terms on the U.S. bishops Communications Committee
and was on the board of the Association of Catholic Publishers (previously the Catholic
Book Publishers Association). He is also co-founder of Redeemer Catholic Radio in
northeast Indiana.
He has published articles in both the Catholic and secular
press, and in 2010 was co-author of Pope Benedict XVI and the Sexual Abuse Crisis:
Working for Reform and Renewal.
Daniela Frank, born in 1962 in Munich, is the
Executive Director of the Catholic Media Council (CAMECO), Aachen (Germany), a research
and consultancy office in communications and media, at the service of local Churches
and communicators in developing countries and Central and Eastern Europe as well as
of Christian funding agencies. She is a Consultor of the Pontifical Council for Social
Communications and consultant to the Advisory Committee of Radio Veritas Asia. She
holds a doctorate in Communication and an MA in Philosophy of Language. From 2003
to 2013, she was World President of the Christian Life Community (CLC).
Father
Eric Salobir o.p. is the General Promoter of the Order of Preachers for Social Communications.
While
his educational background was in business, he has been involved in evangelization
through the media since his entry into the Dominican Order. He first served as chief
editor of an ecumenical radio station in northern France, and has developed new types
of radio programs for evangelization. He was elected to the board of Directors of
the French Federation of Christian Radios (FFRC) and he worked for four years to support
Catholic mass media.
In 2002, together with a group of friars, he founded a
retreat service online named « Retraite dans la Ville » (Retreat in the City), which
became one of the key players on the French speaking Internet. In 2004 he became responsible
for the communication of the Rosary Pilgrimage in France and forged partnerships with
Catholic media to promote Marian activities.
In 2006, Father Salobir joined
the team of the French catholic weekly show « Le Jour du Seigneur » (The Day of the
Lord), on the public TV channel France 2. He has been responsible for the digital
development and the production of a web series and short films, and has covered several
celebrations of the World Youth Day.
He is also the founder of the think tank
OPTIC (Order of Preachers for Technology, Information and Communication), and he collaborated
for eight years with the Permanent Delegation of the Holy See to UNESCO.
Three
years ago, he was called by the General Master to join the Curia of the Dominican
Order, where he coordinates communication and develops preaching projects through
the media. He has also designed the Dominican Order's private social network.
Born
in Mexico City, Dr. Leticia Soberon is a Psychologist from the Pontifical University
of Salamanca (1985) and Doctor (PhD) in Social Sciences (Communications) of the Gregorian
Pontifical University (2008). Her Doctorate Thesis title is “Connective intelligence
in the Digital Network of the Church in Latin America (RIIAL)”. Previously she obtained
the Diploma of Religious Sciences in the San Damaso University in Madrid (1991).
Now
she is Co-Founder and CCO of the knowledge network www.dontknow.net, and of the Dontknow
School of Life. She is also Co-Director of Universitas Albertiana (Barcelona) and
Consultant of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications.
She was an
Official of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications from September 1995 until
December 2011. She was co-founder and researcher of the first Observatory of the Church
in Internet, organized by RIIAL (1997-2003) with Ámbito María Corral (Spain). She
was the Coordinator of the Digital Network of the Church in Latin America (RIIAL)
from 2006 until 2011.
Previously, she had been Executive Secretary in the Bishops’
Council in Latin America (CELAM), Bogotá, from 1991 to 1995, responsible for the Service
for Radio and TV (SERTAL), organizing several meetings and workshops on media literacy
in almost all the Latin American countries. She has written more than 500 articles
on human values, human relations, communication and digital culture, and also screenplays
for radio and short films.
George Yeo joined Kerry Group on 1 Jan 2012 as Vice
Chairman. Since 1 August 2012, he has also assumed the Chairmanship of Kerry Logistics
Network.
From September 1988 to May 2011, he served 23 years in the Singapore
Government, and was Minister for Information and the Arts, Health, Trade & Industry,
and Foreign Affairs until the May 2011 General Election.
Mr Yeo studied Engineering
at Cambridge University on a President’s Scholarship, graduating with a Double First
in 1976, and became a Signals Officer in the Singapore Armed Forces. After graduating
from the Singapore Command and Staff College in 1979, he was posted to the Republic
of Singapore Air Force. He graduated with an MBA (Baker Scholar) from the Harvard
Business School in 1985. He was appointed Chief-of-Staff of the Air Staff (1985-1986)
and Director of Joint Operations and Planning in the Defence Ministry (1986-1988),
attaining the rank of Brigadier-General.
Mr Yeo chairs the International Advisory
Panel of the Nalanda University Governing Board. He is a Member of the Foundation
Board of the World Economic Forum, Berggruen Institute on Governance, the Asia-Pacific
Advisory Board of Harvard Business School, the International Advisory Board of IESE
Business School, the International Advisory Board of National Graduate Institute for
Policy Studies, the International Advisory Committee of Mitsubishi Corporation, the
Economic Development Commission, Hong Kong and the Board of Governors of the Singapore
Manufacturing Federation. Mr Yeo is an Independent Non-executive Director of AIA Group
Limited, a public company listed in the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. In August 2013,
Mr Yeo was appointed a Member of the Pontifical Commission for Reference on the Economic-Administrative
Structure of the Holy See and recently became a member of the newly-formed Vatican
Council for the Economy.
Mr Yeo is Patron of LASALLE College of the Arts and
the Eurasian Association, and Advisor to the Sun Yat-Sen Nanyang Memorial Hall. He
is a Visiting Scholar at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy.
From the
Vatican
Mons. Paul Tighe was born on the 12th February 1958. He attended the
De La Salle Primary School, Navan and completed his secondary education at Summerhill
College, Sligo. He graduated from University College Dublin in 1979 with a degree
in Civil Law. Having studied for the priesthood at Holy Cross College, Dublin and
at the Pontifical Irish College in Rome, he was ordained a priest of the Dublin Diocese
in 1983. His first appointment was as parish chaplain and teacher in Ballyfermot.
Subsequently, he was assigned to study Moral Theology at the Pontifical Gregorian
University in Rome. In 1990, he was appointed as a Lecturer in Moral Theology at the
Mater Dei Institute of Education in Dublin and at Holy Cross College. In 2004, he
was named as Director of the Communications Office of Dublin Diocese. In 2005, he
established the Office for Public Affairs which aimed to promote the engagement of
the Diocese with public institutions and civic society. In November 2007, he was appointed
as Secretary of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications.
Giacomo
Ghisani was born in Cremona (Italy) in 1969.
He has been working at Vatican
Radio since 1997. He is the Head of International Relations and Legal Affairs of Vatican
Radio as of 2004. He is member of the Statutes Group of the EBU – European Broadcasting
Union (2012), the largest professional association of public service broadcasters
with its headquarters in Geneva (Switzerland); he is also member of the Administrative
Council of the Vatican Television Centre (2013).
Giacomo Ghisani has a degree
in Law at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore of Milan (1995). He also has a
Doctorate in Canon Law at the Pontificia Universitas Lateranensis of Rome (2009);
the Lateran University Press published his doctorate thesis “La Radio Vaticana tra
ordinamento canonico e ordinamento italiano: il caso del presunto inquinamento elettromagnetico”
(2009).
Mons. Carlo Maria Polvani was born in Milan on July 28th 1965. Educated
in the Istituto Leone XIII and then in the Collège Stanislas, he earned a Baccalauréat
Français Section Scientifique avec mention in 1982. Enrolled in McGill University
(Montréal, Canada) Department of Biochemistry, he received in 1985 a B.Sc. with honours
and in 1990 a Ph.D Dean’s Honour List, for his research on the enzymatic mechanism
of the Sodium Potassium ATPase. After a Master of Divinity with distinction, in 1993,
at the Weston School of Theology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he received from the
Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, a Licence summa cum laude in Canon Law in
1995 and a Specialization summa cum laude in Jurisprudence and Forensic Psychology
in 1996. Admitted in the Pontifical Lombard Seminary in Rome, he was ordained a priest
for the Archdiocese of Milan by His Eminence Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini on February
14th 1998 and completed his Doctorate in Canon Law summa cum laude in 1999 with the
examination of a distinctively canonical activity: the authentic interpretation of
laws. Enrolled in the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy in Rome, he was called to
the Diplomatic Service of the Holy See, on July 1st 1999, to serve as Secretary in
the Apostolic Nunciature in México. He was then called to the Secretariat of State
and, since 2007, he is in charge of the Information and Documentation Office in the
Section for General Affairs, as well as being the Representative of the Holy See in
the Government Advisory Committee of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and
Numbers (ICANN).
Mons. Lucio Adrián Ruiz, born in Argentina in 1965, was ordained
Diocesan Priest in 1990.
Licentiate of Dogmatic Theology at the Pontifical
University of the Holy Cross, Rome (thesis in Theology of Communication); Master in
Business Administration (MBA), and Doctorate (PhD) from the Universidad Politécnica
de Madrid, Superior Technical School of Telecommunications Engineering, in the Biomedical
Engineering program.
IT-Assessor of the Argentine Episcopal Conference; Executive
Secretary of the System Office of the Latin American Episcopal Council (CELAM) Bogota
and Technical Coordinator of the Digital Network of the Church in Latin America (RIIAL).
Systems Manager for the Congregation for the Clergy and collaborator of the Pontifical
Council for Social Communications.
University professor in the Pontifical University
of the Holy Cross, Rome in Digital Technologies; and Meta-languages of communication
in the Instituto Teológico Pastoral, (ITEPAL), Colombia.
Assessor of the RIIAL
(Digital Network of the Church in Latin America) and Member of the board for the RIIAL
Coordination.
President of the Training and Software Development Center for
the Church in Latin America “Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe”. System Architector of the
Episcopo.net System, and the Office Ecclesial for Latin America.
Head Office
of the Vatican Internet Service, Direction of Telecommunication, Vatican.
He
had addressed numerous conferences, seminars and written articles on The Church in
the Digital Age.
Giovanni Maria Vian, editor-in-chief of L’Osservatore Romano
since 2007, was born in Rome in 1952. He is a layman and a widower with no children.
He taught patristic philology at La Sapienza University of Rome, where he is a full
professor. His fields of expertise include Judaism and Christianity in late antiquity,
the Christian tradition and the papacy in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
He
was an editor and scientific advisor of the Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana (1976-2000).
He has been a member of the Pontifical Committee for Historical Sciences since 1999
and of the Pontifical Commission for Sacred Archaeology since 2009. He is also a consultant
to the Pontifical Council for Social Communications (as of 2011).
The author
of some ninety scientific papers, he has published, among other things, the entries
on Vatican media in the Dictionnaire historique de la papauté (1994, translated into
Italian and English) and a history of Christian texts (Bibliotheca divina, 2001, translated
into Spanish). He has also edited a dozen books, including Il filo interrotto (The
Broken Wire) on the difficult relations between the Vatican and the international
press (2012).
4. IOR
Following the confirmation of the IOR’s mission
by the Holy Father on 7 April 2014 and under the guidance of the Secretariat for the
Economy and its Council, the IOR has announced plans for the next stage of development.
The
Holy Father's Council of Cardinals (C9), the Secretariat for the Economy, the Supervisory
Commission of Cardinals and the current IOR Board of Superintendence have jointly
agreed that this plan shall be carried out by a new executive team led by Jean-Baptiste
de Franssu.
He will assume office as new President of the IOR on July 9, 2014.
Ernst von Freyberg has agreed to serve a period of transition to ensure an orderly
hand-over.
Jean-Baptiste de Franssu said “it’s an honour to have been called
to implement the changes that are now required to further transform the IOR into a
dedicated service provider for the Church”.
Over the next three years, the
IOR’s Statutes will be revised and its operations redesigned, following a set of three
strategic priorities:
1. Strengthening the business foundation for IOR;
2.
Gradually shift assets under management to a newly created, central Vatican Asset
Management (VAM), in order to overcome duplication of efforts in this field among
Vatican institutions;
3. Focus IOR on financial advice and payment services
for clergy, congregations, dioceses and lay Vatican employees.
The IOR is in
a phase of peaceful transition. The first stage of the reforms, led by Ernst von Freyberg
has been completed. Excellent progress has been made through adherence to international
standards and the resultant transparency is evident in the second annual report which
was fully audited by Deloitte. A new anti-money-laundering (AML) framework has been
put in place and every effort continues to be made to comply with this framework.
The internal compliance department, supported by Promontory has closely reviewed 18,000
clients. Von Freyberg's leadership in this first stage has cleared the decks for the
beginning of the next phase to be led by President-elect Jean-Baptiste de Franssu
who will devote himself full-time to his new task. Because of other commitments, President
von Freyberg is unable to dedicate himself full-time to IOR duties.
In the
different financial agencies reporting to the Secretariat for the Economy, a general
pattern of clerical-lay expert cooperation has been followed. The exact nature of
this governmental cooperation at IOR is yet to be determined. The five members of
the Commissione Cardinalizia will continue their involvement and will be joined by
Cardinal Josip Bozanic of Zagreb, Croatia. They are Cardinal Santos Abril y Castello
(Archpriest of the Papal Basilica of St Mary Major), Cardinal Thomas Christopher Collins
(Archbishop of Toronto), Cardinal Pietro Parolin (Secretary of State), Cardinal Christoph
Schönborn (Archbishop of Vienna) and Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran (President of the
Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue).
Six new lay members will be
appointed to the Board of IOR including Mr. Jean-Baptiste de Franssu (France, as President),
Mr. Clemens Boersig (Germany), Prof. Mary Ann Glendon (USA) and Sir Michael Hintze
(UK).
Monsignor Alfred Xuereb, Secretary-General of the Secretariat for the
Economy will be non-voting Secretary of the Board of IOR.
Monsignor Battista
Ricca remains as the Prelate of the IOR.
Further background on the lay members
of the board:
Jean-Baptiste de Franssu is Chairman of INCIPIT, an M&A advisory
and consulting firm.
Up to the end of October 2011 he was Chief Executive Officer
of Invesco Europe and a member of the Invesco Worldwide management committee.
Since
1990 when he joined Invesco, he led the firm's successful expansion first in France
and then across Europe.
Before joining Invesco, Jean-Baptiste was a Director
of Groupe Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations in France, and prior to this a Financial
Editor at INVESTIR magazine.
Jean-Baptiste is a graduate of the ESC Group Business
School in Reims, France and holds a BA in European Business Administration from Middlesex
University in the UK. He also holds a postgraduate degree in Actuarial Studies from
Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris.
In June 2007 he was elected Vice-President
of the European Fund and Asset Management Association (EFAMA) and in June 2009, President
of EFAMA. His mandate ended in June 2011. In 2009 he was Elected European fund industry
personality of the year by Funds EUROPE magazine. He has, over the years, contributed
to many publications, industry working groups and seminars on issues relating to regulation
and supervision of asset management activities in Europe and the US.
Jean-Baptiste
is non-executive director of TAGES LLP, PETERCAM S.A., CARMIGNAC Gestion S.A. and
ACOFI SCA. In March 2014 he was named on the newly created Council for the Economy
for the administrative and financial structures and activities of the dicasteries
of the Roman Curia, the institutions linked to the Holy See, and the Vatican City
State. He is also a member of the World Youth Alliance board.
He is married
and has 4 children
Dr. Clemens Boersig has been Chairman of the Board of Directors
of the Deutsche Bank Foundation since January 2013.
Dr. Boersig joined Deutsche
Bank in 1999 as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. At the beginning
of 2001, he became a member of Deutsche Bank’s Management Board and one year later
also took on additional responsibilities as the Chief Risk Officer. From May 2006
to May 2012, Dr. Boersig was Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Bank AG.
Since June 2012 he has been a member of the bank’s European Advisory Board. Prior
to his career at Deutsche Bank, Dr. Boersig spent almost three years at RWE AG, Essen,
the leading German power company, where he was Member of the Management Board and
Chief Financial Officer. He had previously worked for twelve years at Robert Bosch
GmbH, Stuttgart, seven years as Member of the Management Board. Between 1977 and 1985,
he was with Mannesmann Group, Düsseldorf, first in the Corporate Planning Department
and subsequently, from 1984, as Chief Financial and Administrative Officer of the
Mannesmann-Tally business unit.
Dr. Boersig was born in 1948 in Achern/Baden.
He is married and lives in Frankfurt am Main and Munich. After completing his studies
of business administration and mathematics at Mannheim University in 1973, Dr. Boersig
was Assistant Professor at the Universities of Mannheim and Munich from 1973 to 1977.
He received his doctorate degree (Dr. rer. pol) from Mannheim University in 1975 and
has held a honorary professorship from Munich University since 1995.
Dr. Boersig
has supervisory board mandates at Bayer AG, Daimler AG and Linde AG and is Member
of the board of directors at Emerson Electric Company. He is also a Trustee of the
International Financial Reporting Standards Foundation (IFRSF).
Among his engagements
in research, education and training Dr. Boersig is Chairman of the Supervisory Board
of the European School of Management and Technology (esmt). Furthermore, Dr. Boersig
is Chairman of the Management Board of the Friends of the Historical College in Munich.
His
cultural activities include the Chairmanship of the Management Board of the Cultural
Committee of German Business in the Federation of German Industries (BDI) e.V., membership
on the Board of Directors of the New York Philharmonic, Chairmanship of the Board
of Trustees of the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden e.V., as well as being a Trustee of Friends
of Bayreuth e.V.
Mary Ann Glendon is the Learned Hand Professor of Law at Harvard
University and a former U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See. She chairs the Holy See’s
Select Committee on Legal Matters in the United States and in 2013 was appointed by
Pope Francis to the Commission of Reference charged with the duty of studying the
IOR and making recommendations for its future. She was President of the Pontifical
Academy of Social Sciences from 2004 to 2014, and has represented the Holy See at
various international conferences including the 1995 U.N. Women's conference in Beijing
where she headed the Vatican delegation. She is a member of the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences and a past president of the UNESCO-sponsored International Association
of Legal Science.
Sir Michael Hintze, AM, GCSG, is a businessman, philanthropist
and former Australian army officer who has over 30 years’ experience in global financial
markets both as a markets practitioner and in the formulation of governance in financial
markets. He is the Founder, Chief Executive and Senior Investment Officer of CQS,
one of Europe’s leading multi-strategy asset management firms. Prior to establishing
CQS in 1999, Sir Michael held senior positions at leading global financial institutions
including CSFB (1996-1999) and Goldman Sachs (1984 -1996). He began his career at
Salomon Brothers in 1982. Sir Michael has been a member of a number of finance industry
committees including the Markets Development Committee of the London Stock Exchange,
as well as having participated on committees at LIBA and ISMA. More recently, he is
a Founder Trustee of the Hedge Fund Standards Board and in 2014 was appointed by the
Australian government to the International Advisory Panel of Australia’s Financial
System Inquiry.
Since its inception in 2005, the Hintze Family Charitable Foundation
has provided funding to over 200 charities. Major donations have, amongst others,
provided funding to The Natural History Museum in the UK, the Sculpture and Medieval
and Renaissance galleries at the Victoria & Albert Museum, Trinity Hospice in south
London, established the chair of International Security at the University of Sydney
and enabled the restoration of Michelangelo’s frescoes in the Pauline Chapel at the
Vatican. He is also a Trustee of the UK’s National Gallery.
Sir Michael holds
a BSc in Physics and Pure Mathematics and a BEng in Electrical Engineering both from
the University of Sydney. He also holds an MSc in Acoustics from the University of
New South Wales, an MBA from Harvard Business School and received a Doctor of Business
(Honoris Causa) from the University of New South Wales.