16 Facts About Luigi Spaventa

Luigi Spaventa was an Italian politician and academic.

Luigi Spaventa served as a cabinet minister at different Italian governments.

Luigi Spaventa was a member of the Italian Parliament from 1976 to 1983.

Luigi Spaventa was an independent deputy with the Communist Party.

Luigi Spaventa was the minister of treasury from 1988 to 1989 and the minister of budget from 1993 to 1994.

From 1988 to 1989 Luigi Spaventa served as the chairman of the scientific consulting for the management of the public debt formed by the Italian treasury.

Luigi Spaventa ran for a parliament seat from Rome in the 1994 elections but did not win.

Luigi Spaventa was part of the Democratic Alliance during this period.

Luigi Spaventa served as the chairman of Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena from 1997 to 1998.

Luigi Spaventa was the co-founder of CER, the Centro Europa Ricerche.

Luigi Spaventa was a board member of Banca Nazionale del Lavoro.

Luigi Spaventa wrote for Italian newspapers La Repubblica and Corriere della Sera.

Luigi Spaventa was a member of the Trustees of the International Financial Reporting Standards Foundation from 2008 to July 2010 when he retired from the post.

Luigi Spaventa was named as the non-executive vice chairman of the board of Banca Profilo SpA on 8 June 2009.

In 1962 Luigi Spaventa married a British woman, Clare Royce, an economist to whom he had been introduced by Amartya Sen.

Luigi Spaventa died in Rome on 6 January 2013 at the age of 78 after a long illness.