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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).

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Dr. Samina Sultan is an Economist for European Economic and Fiscal Policy at the German Economic Institute (IW). She studied economics at the Universities of Mannheim, St. Gallen and Tübingen; she did her PhD at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) and at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research interests include trade, trade policy, Europe, fiscal and industrial policies, and China

Carlo Cottarelli obtained a degree in Economics and Banking from the University of Siena in 1977 and a Master in Economics from the London School of Economics in 1981.

From 1981 to 1987 he worked at the Monetary Directorate of the Research Department of the Bank of Italy and from 1987 to 1988 he was head of the Economic Section of at the Research Department of ENI.

In 1988 he began his career at the International Monetary Fund, working in various departments (European Department, Fiscal Affairs Department, Money and Capital Markets Department, and Policy Development and Review Department). During this period, he was responsible for economic surveillance, technical assistance and lending in several advanced, emerging and developing countries, including: Italy, United Kingdom, Russia, Turkey, Portugal, Greece, Albania, Croatia, Hungary, Lebanon, Tajikistan and Serbia.

From 2008 to 2013 he was Director of the Fiscal Affairs Department of the International Monetary Fund. In 2013-2014 he was Commissioner for the Public Spending Review in Italy and from 2014-2017 he was Executive Director at the International Monetary Fund for Italy, Albania, Greece, Malta, Portugal and San Marino.

From October 2017 to September 2022 he was Director of the Observatory on Italian public accounts of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Milan, a position from which he resigned when he was elected as Senator of the Italian Republic on 25 September 2022.

From October 2017 to October 2020 he was Visiting Professor at Bocconi University, being responsible for the Fiscal Macroeconomics course, an elective course of the third undergraduate year, which he continued to teach in the following two academic years.

He resigned from the Senate in May 2023 and he is currently Director of the Educational Program for Economics and Social Sciences of the Catholic University, where he is also Adjunct Professor for the Fiscal Macroeconomic Course.

In November 2017 he received the Laurea Honoris Causa in Public Administration and Policies from the University of Genova.

In 2021 he was awarded the honor of First Class Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.