Andrea Riccardi

Andrea Riccardi is president of the Community of Saint Egidio.Andrea Riccardi is president of the Community of Saint Egidio. This essay is based on a lecture that he delivered on 9 February 1998 at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. The lecture, one in a series entitled “The Democratic Invention,” was cosponsored by the Luso-American Development Foundation, the Mário Soares Foundation, and the International Forum for Democratic Studies.