Mario Monti

Former European Commissioner
President of the Università Bocconi of Milan

Mario Monti earned a degree in economics from the Università Bocconi before pursuing graduate studies at Yale.

He returned to teach at the Bocconi before becoming Rector there in 1989 and later President in 1994. He was Chairman of the Treasury Committee on the Banking and Financial System and of the drafting committee for Italy’s first competition legislation, and later a member of the Roll Committee on the independence of the Bank of England.

A European Commissioner for ten years, he was initially responsible for the Internal Market (1995-1999) and later for Competition (1999-2004).

Mario Monti is Chairman of the Board of Bruegel, the Brussels-based think tank devoted to issues of international economics. Since December 2005 he has been an international advisor to Goldman Sachs International, and a member of the Research Advisory Council of the Goldman Sachs Global Markets Institute. He is a regular contributor to the Italian daily Corriere della Sera, a member of Moody’s Senior European Advisory Council and also serves on the Executive Committee of the Aspen Institute Italia.

He is the author of numerous publications, including Fiscal Policy, Economic Adjustment, and Financial Markets (1989), Le marché unique et l’Europe de demain (1997), La nueva política europea de la competencia (2000), Les réformes récentes de la politique de concurrence de l’Union européenne (2004).