Pier Carlo Padoan

Non-Resident Fellow
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Pier Carlo Padoan has been Chairman of UniCredit since April 2021.

He was Minister of Economy and Finance from February 2014 to May 2018 and Member of Parliament from 2018 to 2020.

He has pursued a high standing institutional and academic career both in Italy and abroad. He now is retired Full Professor in Economics at the La Sapienza University in Rome and has taught at various universities such as: the University of Urbino, the College of Europe both in Bruges and Warsaw, the Université Libre de Bruxelles, the Universidad National de la Plata in Buenos Aires, the Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, and the University of Tokyo.

From June 2001 to August 2005 he was Executive Director at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and from 2007 to 2014 he served as Chief Economist and Deputy Secretary General at the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

He is currently Vice President of the Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI), Board member of the Institute of International Finance (IIF) and of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of the Italian Banking Association (ABI).

In 2021 he was appointed member of the Board of the Istituto Luigi Einaudi per gli Studi Bancari, Finanziari e Assicurativi (ISTEIN) and of the Committee for Corporate Governance of the Borsa Italiana. He is currently Vice-Chairman of the European Financial Services Round Table (EFR) and holds the role of member of the European Banking Group (EBG). He is also Chairman of the Comitato degli Operatori di Mercato e degli Investitori (CONSOB/COMI), member of the Executive Committee of the Associazione fra le Società Italiane per Azioni (Assonime) and of the Executive Board of the Federazione Banche Assicurazioni e Finanza (FeBAF).

In 2022 he was offered the role of Chairperson of the High-Level Group on Financing Sustainability Transition, which is part of the High-Level Groups on EU Policy and Innovation. In 2023 he became Member of the Luiss Institute for European Analysis and Policy (LEAP) and Distinguished Fellow of the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)” and then in 2024 he became member of the Advisory Committee of the Laboratory on the Economic and Monetary Union at the European University Institute (EUI EMU Lab).