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Augusto Leggio

Augusto Leggio

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Born in Rome 14 May 1937, Augusto Leggio (augusto.leggio@anno2000.it) graduated in Industrial Engineering and then specialised in Automatic Controls and Calculations at the Istituto Superiore P.T. in 1962. His studies completed, he went to work for IBM ITALIA as a systems engineer (Advisor). From 1969 he was responsible for the Systems Direction and then for the Applications Development of the Elaboration and Information Systems Service of the Banca d’Italia.

Head of Computer Systems at SIP (now Telecom Italia) from 1986 to 1991 and then a consultant to ISTAT and the Ministry of the Interior, member of the Information Technology Authority for the Public Administration (AIPA), he was also Managing Director of the Ente Poste Italiane from December 1993 to February 1998.

He was also President of the G.U.I.D.E. Association of IBM users from 1972 to 1978 and President of the European Telecommunications Information Systems from November 1990 to July 1991. He alternates between lecturing and consulting and positions in the public administration and the banking and financial sectors. Since 1996 he has been sole Director of SIM POSTE and since 1998 a director of the credit institution Banca2000.

He is in charge of an Internet site (www.anno2000.it)dedicated to the Year 2000 problem and the development of ICT (1998) and is a member of the "Comitato Anno 2000" set up by the Council of Ministers on 6 August 1998.

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Among his publications:

  • Sistemi e Applicazioni di Elaborazione Automatica dei Dati - La Goliardica Ed. (1981)
  • Economia e Ingegneria dell'Informatica - Calderini Ed. (1986)
  • Information Technology e Management - Il Sole 24 Ore Ed. (1993)
  • Manuale di Informatica (con altri) - Calderini Ed. (1993)
  • L’evoluzione delle Poste Italiane - Poste Italiane Ed. (edizioni del 1996 e del 1997)
  • Nel Tempo e nello Spazio - Storia illustrata della Posta e della Telecomunicazione - Poste Italiane Ed. (1996)
  • Euro, anno 2000 e sistemi informativi - L’impatto del cambio data e della moneta unica: problemi, rischi, soluzioni e opportunitą – Ed. Il Sole 24 Ore (1998)
  • Manuale operativo Euro-2000 – Guida pratica per la conversione all’Euro e per superare i problemi del cambio data nel 2000 – Ed. Il Sole 24 Ore (1998)
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