Mr. Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, an Italian citizen, has been appointed advisor to the Prime Minister on macroeconomic, fiscal, banking and debt-management issues.  He will advise the Prime Minister on aspects relating to the implementation of the Greek economic policy programme drawing on his global understanding of the complex nexus of the institutional and financial features it entails coupled with significant experience as a policy maker at the highest international level.

Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa was Italian Minister of Economy and Finance (2006-08) and Chairman of the Ministerial Committee of the International Monetay Fund (IMFC, 2007-2008). He is now President of Notre Europe, Chairman for Europe of Promontory Financial Group and member of the Group of Thirty. . He Online Pokies ^[1] graduated poky little puppy online ^[1] from the Luigi Bocconi University in Milano and has a M.Sc. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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 European Commission (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).

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3 August 2010