Salvatore Rossi

Salvatore Rossi
OMRI
Senior Deputy Governor of the Bank of Italy
Assumed office
10 May 2013
Preceded by Fabrizio Saccomanni
Deputy Governor of the Bank of Italy
In office
17 January 2012 – 9 May 2013
Personal details
Born (1949-01-06) 6 January 1949
Bari, Italy
Alma mater University of Bari
Profession Economist

Salvatore Rossi OMRI (born January 6, 1949) is an Italian economist,[1] Senior Deputy Governor of the Bank of Italy and President of the Italian Insurance Supervisory Authority.

Education and career

Salvatore Rossi was born in Bari, Italy. In 1975, he graduated from the University of Bari with a degree in mathematics. He has been visiting scholar at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

In 1976, he joined the Bank of Italy and in 2000 became head of the Economic Research Department.

From 2007 to 2011, he was chief economist of the Economic Research and International Relations Area. In 2011 he became secretary general and advisor to the Governing Board of the Bank of Italy for economic policy matters. From January 17, 2012 to May 2013, he was a member of the Governing Board of the Bank of Italy as deputy governor. Salvatore Rossi represented the Bank in many official meetings, both in Italy and abroad. He has taught courses and seminars at the University of Rome Tor Vergata and at the University of Bari. From January 2013 to February 2016, he was a member of the Fondo Strategico Italiano. He is Senior Fellow at the LUISS School of European Political Economy.[2]

Since 2011, he has been a board member of the Governing Council of the Italian Economic Association (http://www.siecon.org/). Since May 2012, he is member of the Foundation Board of the International Centre for Monetary and Banking Studies of Geneva (http://www.icmb.ch/). He is member of the board of governors of Fondazione Giovanni Agnelli[3] and of the board of the Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance(EIEF).[4]

On May 7, 2013, upon recommendation of Governor Ignazio Visco, the Bank of Italy’s Board of Directors nominated Salvatore Rossi Senior Deputy Governor of the Bank of Italy, succeeding Fabrizio Saccomanni.

On March 30, 2013, President of the Republic Giorgio Napolitano named Salvatore Rossi among the ten “wise men”, a select group of people who were entrusted the task to devise a policy platform for a new Italian government.[5]

Works

Salvatore Rossi is the author of various articles, essays and books on topics such as international economy, economic politics and history, industrial economy.

  • Competere in Europa (ed.), Il Mulino, Bologna, 1993
  • La bilancia dei pagamenti: i conti con l'estero dell'Italia, la lira, i problemi dell'unione monetaria europea, with R.S. Masera, CEDAM, Padua, 1993
  • La politica economica italiana 1968-1998, Laterza, Rome-Bari 1998, revised editions 2000, 2003, 2007
  • La nuova economia: i fatti dietro il mito (ed.), Il Mulino, Bologna, 2003
  • La regina e il cavallo. Quattro mosse contro il declino, Laterza, Rome–Bari, 2006
  • Controtempo. L'Italia nella crisi mondiale, Laterza, Rome–Bari, 2009
  • Processo alla finanza, Laterza, Rome-Bari, 2013
  • Che cosa sa fare l'Italia, with Anna Giunta, Laterza, Rome-Bari, 2017
  • Oro, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2018

Awards and honours

Knight of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic - awarded on 27 December 1995[6]
Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic - awarded on 27 December 2005[6]
Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic - awarded on 30 December 2013[6]

References

  1. ↑ Bio from the Bank of Italy's website
  2. ↑ Group of Senior Fellows of the LUISS School of European Political Economy Archived 2014-04-07 at the Wayback Machine.
  3. ↑ Membri del Consiglio di amministrazione della Fondazione Giovanni Agnelli
  4. ↑ Governing body of the Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance
  5. ↑ BBC News - Italy: Napolitano invites 'select group' on cabinet
  6. 1 2 3 web, Segretariato generale della Presidenza della Repubblica-Servizio sistemi informatici- reparto. "Le onorificenze della Repubblica Italiana". Quirinale (in Italian). Retrieved 2018-02-24.
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