ITALIAN JOURNALIST TO VISIT MC CAMPUS
Release Date: February 1, 2002
 Stefano Lepri, the managing editor of
the Italian edition of Foreign Policy magazine and a journalist for Italy’s third
largest-selling daily newspaper, will be on Monmouth College’s campus Feb. 11-15 as a Woodrow
Wilson Visiting Fellow.
A highlight of Lepri’s visit will be a talk
that is free and open to the public on Feb. 12 at 11 a.m. in the Morgan Room in Poling Hall.
Lepri’s areas of expertise include Europe’s
economy and politics and European-American relations. He will discuss those issues and others
with students in various departments at Monmouth, including political economy and commerce,
while serving as a guest lecturer during his campus stay.
A journalist since 1974, Lepri has been with
the Italian newspaper La Stampa since 1981, reporting on economic and monetary policy. The
newspaper has a circulation of 400,000. Starting in 1995, his primary focus was monitoring
Europe’s progress toward the launch of the euro.
The Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellows Program
brings leaders in their fields to the campuses of small liberal arts colleges for a week of
classes, informal discussions with students and faculty and career counseling. Monmouth
College hosts two Wilson Fellows each year, and Lepri is the 12th Wilson Fellow to visit
campus.
The visit is made possible by a grant from
The German Marshall Fund of the U.S. to the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. The
fund was established in 1972 by a gift from the Federal Republic of Germany to commemorate
American postwar assistance under the Marshall Plan.
Released
by the Office of College Communications
Barry McNamara, Associate Director of College Communications
Phone: 309-457-2117
Fax: 309-457-2330
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