13 Facts About Paolo Savona

Paolo Savona was born on 6 October 1936 and is an Italian economist, professor, and politician.

Paolo Savona was born in Cagliari, Sardinia, on 6 October 1936.

Paolo Savona specialised at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in Washington, DC In 1976, Carli became the President of General Confederation of Italian Industry and asked Savona to follow him as Director-General, a post that he kept until 1980.

Politically, Paolo Savona was inspired by Ugo La Malfa and thus involved in the Italian Republican Party, where he was close to Giorgio La Malfa, until the early 1990s.

Paolo Savona had several public offices in Italy and abroad, among which: member of the OECD Committee for the standardisation of financial statistics, and of the BIS Standing Committee on Eurodollars; President of the Technical-Scientific Council for Economic Planning, and of the Commission on Nuclear Power in Italy.

On 30 May 2018, it was agreed that Paolo Savona would serve as Italian Minister of European Affairs after both parties agreed to reinstate Conte as their choice for the prime minister and instead nominate economics professor Giovanni Tria, an associate of Paolo Savona, as Minister of Economy and Finances, thus ending the crisis.

On 8 March 2019, Paolo Savona left his post as Minister of European Affairs in order to become president of the Italian Companies and Exchange Commission, the government authority responsible for regulating the Italian securities market.

Paolo Savona was the academic dean of the Faculty of Political Science and International Relations, and director of the PhD in Geopolitics and Economic Geopolitics of the e-University Guglielmo Marconi, of Rome.

Paolo Savona served as Professor emeritus of Economic Politics at the LUISS "Guido Carli" University.

Paolo Savona founded and directed with Michele Fratianni the Open Economies Review, and he is at present the Scientific Editor of the following journals: Economia Italiana, Journal of European Economic History and Review of Economic Conditions in Italy.

Paolo Savona taught in the universities of Perugia and Rome Tor Vergata, and at Public Administration Superior School.

Paolo Savona is the author and joint author of several papers and books on the problems of the real, monetary and financial economy, and on methodological issues.

Paolo Savona is Chinese Eisenhower Fellow of Taiwan and Jemolo Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford University.