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Carlo Ravizza 1999-2000
Italian civil engineer and former owner of an architect planning firm Carlo Ravizza was the 1999-2000 world president of Rotary International, the network of 29,000 community-based service clubs with more than 1.2 million members in 161 countries. He was the second Italian to lead the international community volunteer organization, the first being Gian Paolo Lang 1956.

"I am deeply honored to serve Rotary," says Ravizza, who has worked extensively for Rotary in developing nations. "It's an honor to serve in every area of the world, but particularly where people are poor and in need of resources Rotary can provide."

Ravizza has been actively involved in Rotary's efforts to immunize all the world's children against polio by the year 2000. He led missions to Pakistan to monitor a massive immunization drive and to northern Kenya's most remote areas to chronicle nomadic populations being immunized against polio. Ravizza was one of the first Rotary leaders involved in Rotary's developed-to-developing-nation assistance called World Community Service.

"Getting a chance to see firsthand the effects of poverty, and the need for help and assistance worldwide have humbled me," says Ravizza. "Yet, I am an engineer and I look for solutions. Part of my Rotary experience has been finding solutions to problems that affect people the world over."

Ravizza has held numerous international positions including Rotary vice-president, director and trustee of The Rotary Foundation. With each position he has contributed leadership skills and, at times, his professional talents. Confronted with unexpected space restrictions for the 34,000 delegates attending Rotary's 1995 Convention in Nice, Ravizza, chairman of the event, hand-designed the convention's central exhibit and outdoor meeting space and transformed a public parking lot into an elegant piazza where 1,700 people dined daily.

Ravizza has been a member of the Board of Italian Engineers Association, a member of the Swiss Engineers and Architects Association and has been twice honored by Germany for his outstanding work in planning public facilities and industrial plants. Ravizza has been also recognized by The Rotary Foundation for his support of international humanitarian and educational programs and has represented Rotary at many global meetings of other organizations and United Nations-related agencies. "As a non-governmental organization we must increasingly work with public institutions in the next millennium to contribute private-sector solutions to global problems," he says.

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