Fabrizio Pagani

Fabrizio Pagani on ENAV first day of trading at Borsa di Milano in July 2016.

Fabrizio Pagani studied international relations at the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa and completed his master's degree at the European University Institute. He has been a visiting scholar at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University and at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is one of the founders of the International Training Programme for Conflict Management, a post-graduate programme of the Sant'Anna School. He was awarded the NATO Research Fellowship in 1997.[1] At the end of the '90s, he was Deputy Head at the Department of European Affairs and then Senior Counsellor to the Minister of Industry and Trade.

After having held positions at OECD in Paris, he returned to Italy to become Chief of Staff for the Undersecretary of State, Enrico Letta, at the Office of the Italian Prime Minister (2006-208 Prodi II Cabinet). He also served as member of the board of SACE, Italy's export credit agency. In 2009, he has been Special Political Counselor to the OECD Secretary-General, Angel Gurria, and then Head of the Sherpa Office of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). In this function, he has participated in all major international economic summits (G8 / G20) from 2009 to 2013.

Within Letta Cabinet, he has served as Senior Economic Counsellor and G20 Sherpa of the Prime Minister. In this capacity, he also led the task force “Destinazione Italia”, a plan to attract foreign investment.

Fabrizio Pagani has been Head of the Office of Italy's Minister of Finance, Pier Carlo Padoan. Since 2014, he is non-executive Director of ENI and since April 2017, he is Chairman of ENI's Advisory Board, composed by energy and sustainability experts. He is part of several think tanks and policy units.

His policy action has been inspired by free market principles and he has devised policies for the competitiveness of the Italian system, SMEs financing, banking system reform, bureaucratic simplification, including liberalization, privatization and attraction of private capital.

With President Obama at the White House.

As part of Renzi Cabinet and Gentiloni Cabinet economic policy, Pagani created the "Finance for Growth" project which led to the Competitiveness Law Decree (June 2014), Unlock Italy Decree (August 2014), to the reform of the banking System (Investment Compact decree – January 2015), and to the Reform of Popular Banks and the Guarantee on Securitization of Bank Non Performing Loans (GACS) (February 2016).[2] Pagani has been at the heart of the implementation of government privatization plan, in particular he worked on Poste Italiane IPO in October 2015 and ENAV listing in July 2016.

He conceived and implemented the project "Italy is Next and Now" to attract financial institutions and human capital in Italy, but in particular in Milan.[3] He has been entrusted with the coordination of the “Milan European Financial Hub” Committee.[4]

Fabrizio Pagani is currently Global Head of Economics and Capital Market Strategy at Muzinich&Co., assisting in the development of new strategies and investment programmes to expand the firm's global franchise.[5]

He is a public speaker and contributes regularly to newspapers, radio, TV, and social media on current affairs.

He advises governments on global issues.

• Andrea de Guttry, Fabrizio Pagani, Sfida all'ordine mondiale. L'11 settembre e la risposta della comunità internazionale, Roma, 2002
• Fabrizio Pagani, Peer Review. An OECD Tool for Co-operation and Change, Paris, 2003
• Fabrizio Pagani, Are Pluriraleral Trade Agreements Possible Outside the World Trade Organisation?, (2006) 40 Journal of World Trade, Issue 5, pp. 797 - 812
• Fabrizio Pagani, The OECD Steel and Shipbuilding Subsidy Negotiations, London, 2008
• Andrea de Guttry, Fabrizio Pagani, Le Nazioni Unite, Bologna, second edition, 2010
• Fabrizio Pagani, Italy's Autumn of Discontent, Breakingviews, 4 September 2018
• Fabrizio Pagani, Emerging Fault Lines: 2019 and Beyond, London, 2019
• Fabrizio Pagani, Finance for Growth: Here and Now...and Next, London, 2019