5. Dr. Brando Battistig
   

With the untimely death of Brando Battistig, last March, AIDA has been deprived of one of its finest and most long standing representatives. Brando Battistig, as a young graduate in 1966, started to collaborate with Prof. Donati and Dr. Kohler in AIDA activities and for the review Assicurazioni, showing immediately a degree of enthusiasm and commitment that never faltered.

Since the III AIDA World Congress, held in Paris 1970, he always contributed to the organization of the various National and International sessions and personally participated. Recently his poor health prevented him from attending the New York Congress, although he did not fail to give his support by actively maintaining contact between the Italian and the US chapters. The last AIDA event which he once again did his best not to miss was the traditional Convention of the Piemonte-Valle d'Aosta regional chapter, held in Saint Vincent in November last year.

Dr Battistig was the timely and reliable author of the pieces on AIDA activities to be published in the review Assicurazioni. In 1994, Dr Battistig successfully realized an ambitious challenge: the publication of the "AIDA World Yearbook". It was a highly involving undertaking, first proposed in 1990 to the International Presidential Council that met in Copenhagen. Four years later, on the occasion of the IX World Congress in Sydney, he was able to officially present a volume of over 600 pages, providing detailed and adequate information on the historical-structural, evolution and the scientific activities of AIDA worldwide.

Initially appointed Secretary General of the Italian Chapter, he also became a member of the International Secretariat of the Association and chaired the Motor Insurance Working Group. He was also editor and later on chief editor of the review Assicurazioni to which he devoted his better energies for as long as his failing health permitted him to.

We shall all cherish a dear memory of his bright personality, of his warm understanding and of his professional expertise.

Agostino Gambino