Prof. Dr. Mario Monti

Mario Monti is Senator for life of the Italian Republic and President of Istituto Javotte Bocconi. He was Prime Minister of Italy (2011-2013), heading a government of national unity which overcame Italy’s sovereign debt crisis and launched structural reforms. Monti had previously served for ten years as Member of the European Commission, in the capacity of Commissioner for the Single Market (1995-1999) and then for Competition (1999-2004). He has been member of several advisory commissions in Italy (e.g. Monti Commission on banking and financial reform, Italian Treasury, 1982), the UK (Roll Committee, 2003), and France (Attali Commission on economic growth in France, 2007). In 2020-2021 he chaired the WHO Pan-European Commission on Health and Sustainable Development. At the EU level, he has been the author of A New Strategy for the Single Market (2010), and the Chairman of the High-level Group created by the European Institutions the Commission that released the report Future Financing of the EU (2017). Born in Varese, Italy, in 1943, he graduated from Bocconi and pursued graduate studies at Yale. He was professor of Economics at the Universities of Trento, Torino, and then at Bocconi, where he was Rector between 1989-1994 and President between 1994-2022 (he was on leave while holding public offices).