Vittorio Tanzi

Date of Birth: 1st of November, 1933

Home Country: Italy

AIESEC RECORDS
:: Founder, AIESEC in Milano Bocconi, Italy
:: Established AIESEC in Italy, 1954
:: National Committee President, AIESEC in Italy, 1954 and 1955
:: Presiding Country Committee President (now President of AIESEC International), 1956-57
:: Advisory Country Committee during the Austrian PCC year (1957-58)

ACHIEVEMENTS
Vittorio chaired the International Congress in Italy in 1957 and the Italian Study Tour in 1956. He achieved 18 exchanges in the first year of activity (1955). The exchanges in Italy rose to 60 in 1956 and reached 80-85 in 1957.

During his term as PCCP (PAI), he founded AIESEC in Greece and Yugoslavia. He tried to establish AIESEC in Turkey, in Switzerland and in Spain, without success. Turkey could not be admitted due to the strong refusal of Greece to be member of an organization where Turkey was also participating. Switzerland was not very enthusiastic, but sent an observer to the Italian PCC Congress in 1957. As
for Spain, they would have accepted if membership was granted to the Youth Falangist Organization (the fascists were then ruling Spain, and all relationships with Foreign Associations had to be channelled through them). Wanting to preserve the non-political structure of AIESEC, their candidature was unanimously refused under those conditions.

During the Advisory Country year, he promoted expansion of AIESEC in Latin America (Colombia and Venezuela).
Contacts were established in both countries, but without practical results at the time.

As Advisory Counsellor to the MC, he provides company contacts, personal donations and support to AIESEC in Italy.

He worked for about 35 years in Olivetti-Bull and General Electric (Computers & Punched Cards Equipment) with Sales & Marketing responsibilities in the USA, Italy and Europe.
When he retired in 1991, he founded Imago Italia, a company that now has 40 people active in developing software solutions for Document and Content Management.

“He comes to our National Conferences and for us it is great to have the one who founded our organization in Italy.”
— Antonio Fasano
AIESEC in Italy