Ignazio Visco

Dr. Ignazio Visco is Governor at Banca d'Italia since 1 November 2011 and Member-Governing Council & General Council at European Central Bank.
He is on the Board of Directors at European Central Bank and Chairman of the joint Governing Board of the Insurance Supervisory Authority (IVASS).
He is a member General Board of the European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB), the Board of Directors of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), the Steering Committee of the Financial Stability Board (FSB), the Boards of Governors of the World Bank, and the Asian Development Bank (ADB).
Dr. Visco is also Alternate Governor for Italy at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB).
He takes part of the G7, G10 and G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors Meetings.
At the Bank of Italy since 1972, he was appointed Head of the Research Department in 1990.
From 1997 to 2002 he was Chief Economist and Director of the Economic Department of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
Back in the Bank, Mr. Visco was appointed Central Manager for International Affairs in 2004 and Central Manager for Economic Research in March 2006.
In 2007 he became member of the Bank's Directorate (Governing Board) as Deputy Director General, until October 2011.
Dr. Visco holds a degree in Economics at "La Sapienza" University of Rome (1971), Master of Arts (1974) and Ph.D.
(1981) in Economics at the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, USA).
He is a member of the Italian Economic Society, the Italian Statistics Society, and the American Economic Association.
Dr. Visco was granted the Leontief Award for Best Dissertation in Quantitative Economics (Eastern Economic Association, 1982), the "Best in Class" prize, "La Sapienza" University of Rome (2006).
He was given the title of "Cavaliere di Gran Croce al Merito della Repubblica italiana" in 2011.