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Domenico Siniscalco

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(Economist, financier, politician)
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Born15 July 1954
Turin,Piemonte,Italy
NationalityItalian
Alma materUniversity of Turin,University of Cambridge
PartyIndependent
Italian finance minister who jumped over to Morgan Stanley, 5 Bilderbergs

Domenico Siniscalco is an Italian politician and Minister of Economy and Finances who became Managing Director and Vice Chairman of Morgan Stanley International Limited. He attended several Bilderberg meetings, both before he became minister, during, and after.

Education

Born and raised in Turin, he studied at the Liceo classico statale Vittorio Alfieri, graduated in law at the University of Turin, and obtained a PhD in economics at the University of Cambridge.[1]

Career

At 21 he became a collaborator of the then minister Franco Reviglio, together with Giulio Tremonti, Alberto Meomartini, Mario Baldassarri and Franco Bernabe who were then called the " Reviglio byos".[2]

From 1990 to 2006 he was full professor of political economy at the University of Turin; he also taught at LUISS, at the University of Cagliari, at the Johns Hopkins University of Baltimore (USA) and at the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium). He headed the Eni Enrico Mattei Foundation; he was a board member of Telecom Italia.

He has written more than thirty publications on issues such as privatization, environmental economics and industrial economics in international and Italian journals. He was a columnist for Il Sole 24 Ore. From August 18, 2020 he began his collaboration with the newspaper la Repubblica as a columnist.

Appointed Director general of the treasury by the first Berlusconi government, from 16 July 2004 he became Minister of Economy and finance in the Berlusconi II government succeeding the resigning Giulio Tremonti, while maintaining the post of director general until the following spring. Confirmed to the ministry in the subsequent Berlusconi III government, however, he resigned on September 22, 2005 due to the government's failure to support his request for the resignation of the governor of the Bank of Italy Antonio Fazio, and due to differences regarding the financial choices to be implemented.[3][4][5]

On April 24, 2006, he became managing director and vice president of Morgan Stanley International On December 1, 2007, he assumed the position of Country Head Head for Italy, again of Morgan Stanley[6], a position for which the Competition and Market Authority declared the incompatibility of the law to exist,[7]. In the spring of 2010 he was a candidate for the presidency of the management board of Intesa Sanpaolo but the lack of convergence on his name led him to withdraw his candidacy.

He was president of Assogestioni, the Italian association of asset management companies.


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