Rome, 27 March (LaPresse) – Fabio Roversi Monaco, a legal scholar and professor emeritus of Administrative Law at the University of Bologna, has died at the age of 87. As Rector of the Alma Mater from 1985 to 2000, he led the university for fifteen years, making a decisive contribution to its international development. The University of Bologna has announced his passing. An academic with a solid legal background, he enjoyed a long university career, distinguishing himself as a lecturer in Constitutional Law and later in Administrative Law, for which he was awarded the title of Professor Emeritus. During his tenure as Rector, he promoted initiatives of international significance, including the Magna Charta Universitatum, signed by over 400 Rectors (1988) and the Bologna Process, which culminated in the participation of twenty-nine European Ministers of Education, who met in Bologna in 1999 to discuss the qualitative comparability of educational qualifications across different countries and the free movement of European students and graduates. These meetings led to the drafting of the ‘Bologna Declaration’, signed by 29 European countries on 19 June 1999. Rector Roversi Monaco was also responsible for the development of the Multicampus, a unique initiative in Italy, which ensured the University’s harmonious expansion and its deep roots in the local area. From 2000 to 2013 he was President of the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio in Bologna; from 2013 to 2016 he was President of Banca IMI, subsequently becoming its Vice-President; he was President of the City Museum – Genus Bononiae; from 2001 to 2003 he was Chief Executive of the Giovanni Treccani Institute for the Italian Encyclopaedia. From 1978 to 2006, he was Director of Spisa – the School of Specialisation in Public Administration Studies at the University of Bologna, where he established Italy’s first Master’s programme for corporate lawyers and the first School of Specialisation in Health Law. In 2015, he founded the Festival of Medical Science and served on the scientific committee of numerous scientific journals (he was the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the journal ‘Sanità Pubblica e Privata’).