Pier Carlo Padoan
| Pier Carlo Padoan | |
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| Minister of Economy and Finances | |
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Assumed office 24 February 2014 |
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| Prime Minister |
Matteo Renzi Paolo Gentiloni |
| Preceded by | Fabrizio Saccomanni |
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| Born |
19 January 1950 Rome, Italy |
| Political party | Independent (close to PD) |
| Alma mater | Sapienza University |
Pier Carlo Padoan (Italian: [pjɛr ˈkarlo ˈpadoan]; born 19 January 1950, Rome) is an Italian economist who has been the Minister of Economy and Finances of Italy since 2014.
Padoan had been also director of the International Monetary Fund for Italy from 2001 to 2005. On 1 June 2007, he became vice-secretary general of the OECD.
Pier Carlo Padoan was born in Rome, on 19 January 1950. In 1970s he graduated in economics at the La Sapienza University in Rome. During the years at the University, Padoan harshly criticised, in the magazine Marxist Critic, the economic theories of John Maynard Keynes, being influenced by the ideas of the Polish economist Michał Kalecki.
Until 2007, he was Professor of Economics at the Sapienza University of Rome. From 1992 until 2001 he also was professor at the College of Europe, Bruges and Warsaw, and a visiting professor since 2001. He was also a visiting professor at Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, University of Urbino, Italy, Universidad de la Plata, Argentina, and University of Tokyo, Japan. He has published in the field of European economics and political economy.
From 1998 until 2001 he was economic adviser to Italian Prime Ministers Massimo D'Alema and Giuliano Amato during EU budget negotiations like Agenda 2000, and the Lisbon Agenda, at summits of the European Council and the G8.
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