Born in Turin, on February 4, 1942.
Economist, served as full professor of Business Economics and Industrial Economics at the University of Turin till 2004 and at the Luiss University in Rome from 2004 to 2012.
 

Academic and professional experiences

• From 1974 to 1995 he lead the Research Institute on Business and Development, the main economic unit of the National Research Council, supporting different Government bodies on economic and industrial policies.

• Appointed in the Privatization Committee (Comitato Draghi) in 1994, in 1997 he was designated as CEO of IRI, with the mandate of privatizing its main subsidiaries. At the end of 1999 he was designated as Chairman of Eni, with the task of accompanying the gas sector liberalization and the growth of the company in E&P. From 2002 to 2010 he chaired Atlantia, the main private infrastructural operator in Italy.

• From 2004 to 2011 he directed the Department of Economic and Business Science at LUISS.

• He served as director in many industrial, banking and services companies.

• For 13 years he was on the Board of Directors of the University of Turin.

• He served as a member of the National Council for the Economy and Labor, a constitutional body, during

  10 years.

• He was a member of the executive of Confindustria (the employers federation) for 13 years.

• He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Italian Association of Stock Companies (Assonime) and of the Italian Association of Banking, Insurance and Finance (Febaf).
   
• He is the President of the Felice Gianani Foundation.
   
• He chairs the Scientific Committee of the Cotec Foundation, whose Honorary President is the Head of the State, and of which he was a founder and the first President, and where he now serves as a director. He chairs the Scientific Council of Nomisma.
   
• He is member of the Board of Directors of the Luigi Einaudi Institute.
   
• He is member of the Board of Directors and of the Executive Committee of the ISPI – Institute for International Political Studies.
   
• He is a member of the Scientific Committees of the reviews “L’Industria” and “Mercato, Concorrenza e Regole”, and is a member of the Commission of the Dematté Award.