ENI CHAIR IN INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS (BOLOGNA CENTER)
Established in 1992 by AGIP and ENI
AGIP, established as the Italian state-run petroleum company, is now a division of privately owned ENI SpA. Raffaele Santoro, who at the time this chair was established served as AGIP's chairman and president, had studied at the Bologna Center on a fellowship in 1959-60, where he met his future wife, Barbara Coleman, also a Bologna Center student. This was one of the first chairs endowed at the Bologna Center, which was founded in 1955 by SAIS to offer a unique opportunity for United States and international students to live and study under an international faculty in a European setting.
MICHAEL G. PLUMMER, Bologna 1982, is professor of international economics at SAIS’s Bologna Center. where he holds the ENI Chair in International Economics for 2009-2010. Dr. Plummer serves as director of the American Committee on Asian Economic Studies; editor in chief of the Journal of Asian Economics; senior fellow at the East-West Center (1989-1993); lecturer and adviser to the Asian Development Bank; and team leader and adviser to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Secretariat (2001-2003). From 2006 to 2007, he led a study on the development of ASEAN regional bond market, and he has advised USAID on ASEAN free-trade initiative.
Dr. Plummer has published ASEAN Economic Integration: Trade, Finance, and Foreign Direct Investment (forthcoming 2009); "Best Practices in Regional Trading Agreements: An Application to Asia" in The World Economy (2007); co-editor of The World Trade Organization: Legal, Economic, and Political Analysis (Vols. I-III)(2005); co-author of Economic Integration and Development: Has Regionalism Delivered for Developing Countries? (2002); as well as numerous articles and reviews in academic journals. He is international advisory board member of the ASEAN Economic Bulletin.
AGIP, established as the Italian state-run petroleum company, is now a division of privately owned ENI SpA. Raffaele Santoro, who at the time this chair was established served as AGIP's chairman and president, had studied at the Bologna Center on a fellowship in 1959-60, where he met his future wife, Barbara Coleman, also a Bologna Center student. This was one of the first chairs endowed at the Bologna Center, which was founded in 1955 by SAIS to offer a unique opportunity for United States and international students to live and study under an international faculty in a European setting. 
MICHAEL G. PLUMMER, Bologna 1982, is professor of international economics at SAIS’s Bologna Center. where he holds the ENI Chair in International Economics for 2009-2010. Dr. Plummer serves as director of the American Committee on Asian Economic Studies; editor in chief of the Journal of Asian Economics; senior fellow at the East-West Center (1989-1993); lecturer and adviser to the Asian Development Bank; and team leader and adviser to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Secretariat (2001-2003). From 2006 to 2007, he led a study on the development of ASEAN regional bond market, and he has advised USAID on ASEAN free-trade initiative.