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After studying at the University of Padua Lorenzo Codogno continued his studies in the United States where he earned a master’s degree in Finance at Syracuse University in Syracuse New York (1986-87). He was formerly a deputy manager of Credito Italiano (now Unicredito) where he worked in the research department. Subsequently from 1995 to 2006 he worked for Bank of America first in Milan and from 1998 in London where he held the position of managing director senior economist and the co-head of economic analysis in Europe. In 2006 he joined the Ministry of the Economy and Finance where he is currently Director General in the Treasury Department and head of the Economic and Financial Analysis and Planning Directorate. This Directorate is in charge of macroeconomic forecasting cyclical and structural analysis of the Italian and international economy and analysis of monetary and financial issues. He is also the head of the Italian delegation to the European Union’s Economic Policy Committee (a body of which he has been deputy chairman since January 2008) as well as to the OECD’s Economic Policy Committee and Working Party 1 (of which he has been deputy chairman since October 2007). Within the European Union’s Economic Policy Committee he is also chairman of the Lisbon Methodology Working Group whose purpose is to develop methodological approaches to track analyse and model structural reforms. In addition he is the author of numerous scientific publications and of articles in the specialised press. Before joining the Ministry he has been economic commentator on the main international economic and financial networks. He was a director of MTS (a company that manages markets for bond trading now part of the London Stock Exchange group) from 1999 to 2003 and is currently a member of the administrative committee of the ISAE (an economic research institute). He has been a Director of Enel since June 2008. | 