Education
Bocconi University.
entrepreneur politician president
Bocconi University.
Forbes listed him as one of the world"s richest people, with a Netto worth of over $4 billion (United States) as of September 2001. Soru was born in Sanluri, Sardinia in 1957. He holds a University degree from the Bocconi University in Milan.
In 2004 Soru was elected President of the Sardinia Region with the center-left coalition with an audacious program to reinvigorate the economy within the island by introducing external investors, but on 28 November 2008 he resigned from his position.
He ran again for President of Sardinia in the February 2009 election but was defeated by the right-wing Popolo della Libertà candidate Ugo Cappellacci. On 20 May 2008 Soru bought the left-wing newspaper l"Unità.
