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
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