University of Genoa - Noted Alumni

Noted Alumni

• Ornella Barra, graduated as a pharmacist from the University of Genoa. She worked at as a manager at a local pharmacy which she later bought. Later creating a successful pharmaceutical distribution company known as Di Pharma. Now Ornella is chief executive of Alliance Healthcare, the Pharmaceutical Wholesale Division of Alliance Boots
• Paolo Fresco received a law degree from the University of Genoa. He joined COGETEL, a General Electric's Italian subsidiary, becoming president and general manager of that company in 1972. In 1976, he joined GE's International Group and was elected a vice president the next year. Paolo Fresco became a member of the GE Board and, in 1992, was elected vice chairman and executive officer. In 1998, he retired from GE and became chairman of the board of Fiat, the biggest Italian car company.
• Kostas Georgakis, anti-fascist dissident who set himself ablaze as a protest against the Greek military junta of 1967-1974
• Franco Malerba, first Italian astronaut
• Sandro Pertini, antifascist dissident, later 7th President of the Italian Republic
• Enrico Piaggio, industrialist