Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, former Italian minister of finance (2006-2008), is President of Notre Europe. Previously, he was a Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank from 1998 to May 2005 and Chairman of the IASC Foundation (International Accounting Standard Committee) in 2005-2006 (Rome). His earlier appointments include: Chairman of Commissione Nazionale per le Società e la Borsa (CONSOB, 1997-1998), Deputy Director General of the Banca d’Italia (1984-1997), and Director-General for Economic and Financial Affairs at the Commission of the European Communities (1979-1983). He graduated from the Luigi Bocconi University, Milan, Italy, in 1966 and received a Master of Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He holds five honorary degrees.