Tiziana Di Ciommo, Doctor in Law and currently responsible for the Procedural Law area at UIC Barcelona, has been awarded the Mondi Lucani 2023 Award for Italian Excellence in its fifth edition. The award is granted by the prestigious Mondi Lucani association through an election process involving its president, Maria Adriulli, and a scientific committee made up of prominent personalities from the Italian institutional and business world. The award was presented on this occasion by Alessandra Rossi, UN chief technical advisor. 

During the ceremony, Tiziana Di Ciommo highlighted “the need to promote a meritocratic society where the distribution of functions is carried out specifically on the basis of merit and not on staff/job categories.” She later added, ““It would be desirable to recognise the fair weight of the female dimension in a society still anchored to structures with a strong masculine tradition to ensure equality in decision-making processes as well as fair representation in the vertical management positions.”

Lawyer Tiziana Di Ciommo, in addition to performing her functions in the Procedural Law Area at UIC Barcelona, is director of the Litigation and Insolvency Department at PwC. Di Ciommo has been honoured with numerous institutional distinctions, is the author of multiple publications, lecturer in international forums and distinguished as Best Lawyer since 2019.

Among other award-winning personalities for his extraordinary career was Luigi Lovaglio, current CEO of Banca Monte dei Pashi di Siena, the oldest bank in the world. Lovaglio received the award from Gregoria de Felice, chief economist at Banca Intesa San Paolo.

The event was presented by Pacifica Artuso, actress and university lecturer. The award ceremony, gala dinner and closing ceremony took place at the Palacio Alvino, 1884, in the city of Matera (Italy), European capital of culture in 2019.