Dean of the School of Business and Professor of Political Economy at the Università degli Studi Guglielmo Marconi in Rome. He has written extensively on fiscal and monetary policies and on financial markets and banking regulation. He holds a course on financial regulation at Sciences Po in Paris.
He served as technical Minister for the Budget and Economic Planning in the Dini Government and was appointed one of the 5 “Wise Men” for the review of the “Lamfalussy” process (IIMG) and Member of the High Level Group of European Commission on Financial Supervision in the EU (Group de Larosière). He was Member of the Board of the Bank for International Settlements and Member of G10 Deputies, Central Director in Bank of Italy (Rome), Managing Director of IMI SpA, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Group Sanpaolo IMI (Turin) and of RFI SpA, Chief of the Italian Delegation of the Franco-Italian Government Committee for the new Turin-Lyon railway link and Expert Member of the Board of the European Investment Bank.