Aurelio Peccei (4 July 1908, Turin, Piedmont – 14 March 1984, Rome) was an Italian scholar and industrialist, best known as the founder and first president of the Club of Rome - an organisation which raised considerable public attention in 1972 with its report The Limits to Growth. The Club of Rome's supporters consider it a global planning organization; its critics accuse it of promoting eugenics and population control.