Fabrizio Pagani
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Born | January 4, 1967 |
Fabrizio Pagani (Pisa, January 4, 1967) is an Italian economist and the Chief of Staff of the Italian Minister of Economy and Finance, Pier Carlo Padoan. He is also non-executive Director of the Italian oil company, ENI. Within the Letta Cabinet, he has served as senior counsellor and G20 Sherpa of the Prime Minister.
Biography
Fabrizio Pagani studied international relations at the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa and completed a his masters degree in International and European Law at the European University Institute. He has been a visiting scholar at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University and at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is one of the founders of the International Training Programme for Conflict Management, a post-graduate programme of the Sant'Anna School. He was awarded the NATO Research Fellowship in 1997[1]. Between 1998 and 1999 he was Deputy Chief of the Legislative Office at the Department of European Affairs (D'Alema I Cabinet) and then Counsellor for International Affairs of the Minister of Industry, Commerce and Craft between 1999 and 2001 (D'Alema II Cabinet and Amato II Cabinet).
After had held a responsible position at OECD in Paris, he returned to become Chief of Staff for the Undersecretary of State, Enrico Letta, at the Office of the Italian Prime Minister (2006-208 Prodi II Cabinet). He also served as member of the board of SACE, Italy’s export credit agency. In 2009, he has been Special Political Counselor to the OECD Secretary-General, Angel Gurria, and then Head of the Sherpa Office of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). In this function, he has participated in all major international economic vertices from 2009 to 2013.
Within Letta Cabinet, he has served as Senior Economic Counsellor and G20 Sherpa of the Prime Minister. In this capacity, he also led the task force “Destinazione Italia”, an ambitious plan on the attractiveness of foreign investment. Currently Fabrizio Pagani is Head of the Office of Italy's Minister of Finance, Pier Carlo Padoan. Since 2014, he is non-executive Director of ENI and from 2014 to 2017 he has been Chairman of ENI’s Scenarios and Sustainability Committee. Since April 2017, he is Chairman of ENI's Advisory Board, composed of international experts in the oil and gas sector. He is part of several think tanks and policy units.
His policy action is inspired by principles of a free market economy. He is involved in policies for the competitiveness of the Italian system, SMEs financing, banking system reform, bureaucratic simplification, including liberalization, privatization and attraction of private and foreign capital.
As part of Renzi Cabinet and Gentiloni Cabinet economic policy, Pagani created the "Finance for Growth" project which led to the Competitiveness Law Decree (June 2014), Unlock Italy Decree (August 2014), to the reform of the banking System (Investment Compact decree – January 2015), and to the Reform of Popular Banks and the Guarantee on Securitization of Bank Non Performing Loans (GACS) (February 2016).[2] Pagani is at the heart of the implementation of government privatization plan, in particular he was worked on behalf of the Minister on the Poste Italiane IPO in October 2015 and ENAV quotation in July 2016.
He carried on with the project "Italy is Next and Now" to attract financial institutions and human capital in Italy, but in particular in Milan.[3] He has been entrusted with the coordination of the “Milan European Financial Hub” Committee.[4]
Works
- Andrea de Guttry, Fabrizio Pagani, Sfida all'ordine mondiale. L'11 settembre e la risposta della comunità internazionale, Roma, 2002
- Fabrizio Pagani, Peer Review. An OECD Tool for Co-operation and Change, Paris, 2003.
- Fabrizio Pagani, The OECD Steel and Shipbuilding Subsidy Negotiations, London, 2008
- Andrea de Guttry, Fabrizio Pagani, Le Nazioni Unite, Bologna, second edition, 2010
References
- ↑ NATO Fellowships Winners http://www.nato.int/docu/pr/1997/p97-072b.htm
- ↑ Finance for Growth, A plan to increase credit and facilitate business growth http://www.tesoro.it/farsiunidea/booklet/Finance_Growth.pdf)
- ↑ Italy is Now and Next. Attracting (Human) Capital http://www.amblondra.esteri.it/Ambasciata_Londra/resource/doc/2017/04/italy_is_now_and_next_ver3.pdf
- ↑ Launch of the “Milan European Financial Hub” Committee to attract financial institutions and human capital, Rome, 26 May 2017 http://www.tesoro.it/en/ufficio-stampa/comunicati/2017/documenti/Comunicato88.pdf