Francesco Giavazzi
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| Born | 11 August 1949 Bergamo, Italy |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Alma mater | Polytechnic University of Milan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Mentors | Rudi Dornbusch |
Italian neoliberal economist who attended the 1999 and 2004 Bilderberg meetings. In 1999 he was advisor to the Italian government; in 2004 he was selected as advisor to the President of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso. | |
Francesco Giavazzi is an Italian liberal economist who attended the 1999 and 2004 Bilderberg meetings. In 1999 he was advisor to the Italian government; in 2004 he was selected as advisor to the President of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso.
Education
Giavazzi graduated in electrical engineering from the Politecnico di Milano university in 1972 and obtained a PhD in economics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1978 under the supervision of Rudi Dornbusch.
Career
He was a professor at the University of Padua and at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice, before teaching economic policy at Bocconi University in Milan, of which he was pro-rector in research between 2000 and 2002; he was also a regular visiting professor at MIT in Boston.
In addition to being a professor at Bocconi University, he was a Research Fellow and a Trustee of Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), a member of the Strategic Committee of Agence France Trésor, and of the Group of Economic Policy Advisers to the President of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso. During 2004 he was the Houblon-Norman Fellow at the Bank of England. During the D'Alema government (1998–2000) he was a member of the Council of Economic Advisers to the Italian prime minister. He was Director General of the Italian Treasury responsible for debt management and privatizations from 1992 to 1994.
From 1991 to 1999 he was an editor of the European Economic Review. He is also well known for his editorials in Italy's leading daily Corriere della Sera. His opinions on economic matters, expressed in his books and editorials on the front page of Corriere della Sera, recall mainly classical liberalism and pro-American liberalism, close to the ideas of the Chicago school, Milton Friedman and Luigi Einaudi.[1]
In 2015, Giavazzi wrote a scathing denunciation of Greeks.[2] His polemic was criticized by Karl Whelan, a professor of economics at University College Dublin.[3]
References
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