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Rainer Masera
Economist and Academic
An Italian economist and academic, he holds a PhD in economics from Oxford University.
He holds an honorary degree in International and Diplomatic Sciences from the Faculty of Political Science at the University of Turin.
Without belonging to any political partiy, he was Minister of Budget and Economic Planning in the government led by Lamberto Dini from 1995 to 1996.
Mr Masera has held various positions in state and private institutions, including board member of the Bank for International Settlements, central director of the Bank of Italy, CEO and president of the Sanpaolo IMI Group and RFI SpA, and expert member of the board of the European Investment Bank. He is currently a faculty member at the Guglielmo Marconi University in Rome and dean of the business school.
Michele Fratianni
Indiana University
He is Professor Emeritus at the Kelley School of Business of Indiana University (Bloomington, Indiana) and Professor of Economics at the Università Politecnica delle Marche (Ancona, Italy). He has held contemporary positions at the Catholic University of Louvain (1974-1991), Marquette University (1995, Distinguished Professor of International Economics), Free University of Berlin (1995, Bundesbank Professor of International Monetary Economics), as well as visiting positions at the Catholic University of Milan (1985) and the University of Rome La Sapienza (1991). He has also worked in government and international organisations, such as the U.S. Council of Economic Advisers (1981-1982, Senior Staff Economist)
and the Commission of the European Communities (1976-1979, Economic Adviser), and has been a consultant to the Italian government (various ministries), the Bank of Italy, and the governments of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Vietnam on domestic and international monetary issues. He is the Founder and current member of the Board of Advisors of Open Economies Review, Editor of the Rivista Italiana degli Economisti, and member of the Editorial Board of the Review of International Organisations. Professor Fratianni's research interests include international monetary economics, international trade, international economic policy and monetary history.
George Tavlas
Alternate to the Governor of the Bank of Greece, Governing Council of the European Central Bank, Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
He is a Greek-American economist. He has served as Alternate to the Governor of the Bank of Greece for the European Central Bank since 2008. He is also a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University. Tavlas was the Director General of the Bank of Greece from 2010 to 2013, and a member of the General Council and the Monetary Policy Council of the Bank of Greece from 2013 to 2020.
He also acted as an advisor to the bank's governors during Greece's entry into the Eurozone and played a role in the management and resolution of the Greek government debt crisis. He began his career as an economist in the U.S.
Department of State, and was an advisor to the World Bank and the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development. Before joining the Bank of Greece, he served as Division Chief at the International Monetary Fund. In addition to his roles at the Bank of Greece, from 2016 to 2019, Tavlas served on the Supervisory Board of the Hellenic Corporation for Assets and Participations (HCAP), the Greek state sovereign wealth fund. During his tenure, he assisted in the creation and implementation of policies responsible for the privatisation of state assets in Greece and the supervision of the portfolio of Greek state assets. In 2023 he has published The Monetarists: The Making of the Chicago Monetary Tradition, 1927 to 1960 (published by the University of Chicago Press), illustrating a detailed history of the development of the economic school of thought Monetarism. He is currently member of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank.
Jan Kregel
Tailjn University
Kregel has been Professor of Finance and Development at Tallinn University of Technology in Estonia since 2006. He holds the position of Adjunct Professor at Johns Hopkins SAIS, where he co-directed the Bologna Centre in the late 1980s, and is a Visiting Professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. He is also a Senior Scholar at the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College. Until 2007, he was Head of the Branch of Policy Analysis and Development in the Office of Financing for Development of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs. Until 2004, he served as Senior Expert in International Finance and Macroeconomics at UNCTAD's New York Liaison Office, being its de facto Chief Economist.
For many years, he held the Chair of Political Economy at the University of Bologna. Kregel studied mainly atCambridge University (with Joan Robinson and Nicholas Kaldor) and Rutgers University (Ph.D. 1970 under Paul Davidson). He is a Life Fellow of the Royal Economic Society in London and in 2000 co-founded The Other Canon, a centre and network for research in heterodox economics, with principal founder and executive chairman Erik Reinert. Kregel is the programme director for the Master of Science in Economic Theory and Policy at the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, a programme launched in 2014.
Donato Masciandaro
Full Professor of Economics at Bocconi University
He is Full Professor of Economics at Bocconi University, where he also assumed the role of Ettore Bocconi Department of Economics Liaison Officer of the SDA Bocconi School of Management since January 2017. Director of the Baffi Carefin Centre at Bocconi University, Masciandaro served as Director of the Ettore Bocconi Department of Economics and President of the Baffi Carefin Centre. He has extensive international experience, having worked as a visiting and advisor for institutions such as the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the Inter-American Development Bank. His area of research includesmonetary and financial economics, focusing on central banking, financial regulation and illicit financial markets.
Masciandaro boasts an Impact Factor of 35 (June 2020), highlighting the considerable impact of his research in the field.
He is a member of prestigious international research networks such as RIDGE and the IRCCF, and has received major awards for his work, including the 2011 International Falcone and Borsellino Prize and the Saint Vincent Award in 1992, as well as the Bocconi Research Excellent Award in 2013. He was also a Visiting Scholar at the London School of Economics and Political Science, further underlining his international academic profile and excellence in the field of economics.
Giuseppe Italiano
LUISS University
He is Professor of Computer Science at the Luiss University, where he is also Director of the Master in Data Science and Management, the Master in Cybersecurity and the Master in Big Data and Management at the Luiss Business School. He has gained international experience as Visiting Professor at prestigious institutions such as Columbia University, the Université Paris-Sud, the Max-Planck-Institut fur Informatik in Saarbrücken and the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, as well as being a Visiting Scientist at AT&T Research Labs and Microsoft Research.
His research is predominantly focused on algorithms and in 2016 he was named a Fellow of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science for his ‘fundamental contributions in the design and analysis of algorithms to solve theoretical and applied problems in graphs and large data sets, and for his role in establishing the field of algorithm engineering’. He has published over 300 scientific papers, advised major international companies and co-founded several technology start-ups. He has recently been appointed as member of the Italian Government commission on the application of algorithms to the editorial field, as the only technology expert. He is Dean of the newly established AI department at LUISS University.
