Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa is President of Notre Europe and Chairman of Promontory Europe. He was Italian Minister of Economy and Finance (2006-08) and Chairman of the Ministerial Committee of the International Monetary Fund (IMFC, 2007-2008).
He is a former Chairman of the Trustees of the IASC Foundation (International Accounting Standard Committee, 2005-2006). In 1998-2005 he was member of the first Executive Board of the European Central Bank.
Previously he was Chairman of Commissione Nazionale per le Società e la Borsa (CONSOB, 1997-98), Deputy Director General of the Banca d'Italia (1984-97) and Director General for Economic and Financial Affairs at the Commission of the European Communities (1979-83). He has been Joint Secretary to the Delors Committee (1988-89), Chairman of the Banking Advisory Committee of the EC (1988-91) , Chairman of the Basle Committee on Banking Supervision (1993-97) and Chairman of the Committee on Payment and Settlement Systems (2000-05).
He is the author of a number of books and articles on economic and financial matters as well as on European and international affairs. Recent books include Contre la courte vue : entretiens sur le Grand Krach (Odile Jacob, 2009); The Euro and its Central Bank (MIT Press, 2004); Regulating Finance (Oxford University Press, 2004) and Europe, a Civil Power (The Federal Trust, 2004).
He graduated from the Luigi Bocconi University and has a M.Sc. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
He is Cavaliere di Gran Croce della Repubblica Italiana.
Contre la courte vue : entretiens sur le Grand Krach (Odile Jacob, 2009)
The Euro and Its Central Bank : Getting United After the Union, Éditeur : MIT Press (juillet 2004) ; Format : Relié - 260 pages ; ISBN : 0262162229
Regulating Finance : Balancing Freedom and Risk, Éditeur : Oxford University Press (25 March 2004) ; Format : Relié - 176 pages ; ASIN : 0199270562
The Road to Monetary Union in Europe : The Emperor, the Kings, and the Genies, Éditeur : Oxford University Press (December 2000) ; Format : Broché - 280 pages Expanded édition ; ISBN : 0199241767
The Transition to EMU in the Maastricht Treaty de Lorenzo Bini Smaghi, Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, F. Papadia ; Éditeur : Princeton Univ Intl Economics (November 1994) ; Format : Broché - 74 pages ; ASIN : 088165101X
Tripolarism : Regional and Global Economic Cooperation ; Éditeur : Group of Thirty (June 1993) ; Format : Broché ; ASIN : 1567080898
Europe After 1992 : Three Essays ; Éditeur : Princeton Univ Intl Economics (June 1991) ; Format : Broché ; ASIN : 0881650897
Efficacité, Stabilité, Equité, 1988, Ed. Economica, Préface de Jacques Delors
Efficiency, Stability, and Equity : A Strategy for the Evolution of the Economic System of the European Community ; Éditeur : Oxford Univ Pr (Txt) (November 1987) ; Format : Relié - 200 pages ; ASIN : 0198286309
On the eve of the June 2010 European Council, Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa expresses his opinion on the way the EU has handled the crisis since the Spring European Council, on the priority areas in which the EU needs to take action and on the definition of a European economic strategy.
We could pretend to be unaware that the crisis threatened the European Union itself as long as only a bank, an area of industry, or a neighboring country were affected. However, when it hit a country like Greece, a member of the euro group, it became self-evident that while Europe may not be to blame, it could well become the great global crisis' main victim. [...] Thus Europe is once again facing both an opportunity and a risk at the same time. The Union today needs to complete its project, and thus it has an opportunity to do so.