Ignazio Visco

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Ignazio Visco
Ignazio Visco at the Rebuilding Europe’s Competitiveness Meeting, Villa Madama, Rome 30th October 2012.jpg
Governor of the Bank of Italy
Assumed office
1 November 2011
Preceded by Mario Draghi
Deputy Director General of the Bank of Italy
In office
9 January 2007 – 1 November 2011
Preceded by Pierluigi Ciocca
Succeeded by Salvatore Rossi
Personal details
Born (1949-11-21) 21 November 1949 (age 74)
Naples, Italy
Alma mater Sapienza University
University of Pennsylvania

Ignazio Visco (Italian pronunciation: [iɲˈɲattsjo ˈvisko]; born 21 November 1949) is an Italian economist and the current Governor of the Bank of Italy.[1][2]

Early life and education

Visco was born in Naples on 21 November 1949.[3] He obtained a summa cum laude degree in economics from the Sapienza University of Rome[3] in 1971 with Federico Caffè as supervisor and continued his studies at the University of Pennsylvania (Economics Department), where he obtained an MA in 1974 and a PhD in 1981.[3]

Career

In 1972 Visco began his career at the Bank of Italy and in 1990 he was named head of the research department; from 1997 to 2002 he was chief economist of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and on 9 January 2007 he was named deputy director general of the Bank of Italy (alongside Giovanni Carosio) and a member of its Direttorio (Board of Directors).[4]

On 24 October 2011 Visco was named to succeed Mario Draghi as governor of the Bank of Italy by Italian President Giorgio Napolitano.[2][5]

Starting from 1 January 2013, in accordance with Legislative Decree 95/12 (converted into law, with modifications, from Law no.135/2012), he also holds the position of chairman of the joint governing board of the Italian Insurance Supervisory Authority (IVASS).

On 28 January 2015,[6] Ignazio Visco was placed under investigation by the Prosecutor of Spoleto as part a probe into the special administration of Banca Popolare di Spoleto.[7] In February 2016, the same Prosecutor asked that the investigation to be shelved.[8]

Works

  • Price Expectations in Rising Inflation, North Holland, 1984
  • Le aspettative nell'analisi economica, Il Mulino, 1985
  • Inflazione, concorrenza e sviluppo (with Stefano Micossi), Il Mulino, 1993
  • Saving and the Accumulation of Wealth (with Albert Ando and Luigi Guiso), Cambridge University Press, 1994
  • L'economia italiana (with Federico L. Signorini), Il Mulino, 2002
  • Ageing and Pension System Reform (as Chairman of the G-10 Working Group), 2005 (PDF)
  • Investire in conoscenza, Il Mulino, 2009

References

  1. Bio from the Bank of Italy website
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Civic offices
Preceded by Deputy Director General of the Bank of Italy
2007–2011
Succeeded by
Salvatore Rossi
Preceded by Governor of the Bank of Italy
2011–present
Incumbent