The President of the European Central Bank
Mario Draghi
Date of birth: 3 September 1947
Place of birth: Rome, Italy
Education
- 1970
- Degree in Economics, Sapienza University of Rome
- 1977
- PhD in Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Professional career
- 1975-1981
- Professor of Economics at the universities of Trento, Padua and Venice
- 1981-1991
- Professor of Economics and Monetary Policy at the University of Florence
- 1984-1990
- Executive Director of the World Bank
- 1991-2001
- Director General of the Italian Treasury
- 2002-2005
- Vice Chairman and Managing Director at Goldman Sachs International
- 2006-October 2011
- Governor, Banca d’Italia
- 2006-October 2011
- Chairman of the Financial Stability Board (former Financial Stability Forum)
- Since 2006
- Member of the Board of Directors at the Bank for International Settlements
Member of the G7
Member of the G20
- Since November 2011
- President of the European Central Bank
- Since November 2011
- Chair of the European Systemic Risk Board
Other posts
- 1993-2001
- Chair of the Italian Committee for Privatisations
- 1997-1998
- Chair of the Committee set up to revise Italy’s corporate and financial legislation and to draft the law that governs Italian financial markets
(also known as the “Draghi Law”)
- 1999-2001
- Chairman of the OECD’s Working Party No 3
- 2000-2001
- Chairman of the European Economic and Financial Committee
- Since 2003
- Honorary Trustee of the Brookings Institution
- Since 2006
- Member of the Group of Thirty
- Since 2009
- Member of the Board of Trustees of the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study
Distinctions and awards
- 2009
- Doctor honoris causa in Statistics from the University of Padua
Publications
- He is the author of a number of articles on international and European monetary and financial issues.
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