Fabrizio Pagani (Pisa, January 4, 1967) is an Italian economist and public policy expert. He is working in the financial sector in Italy and internationally and serves in corporate boards. He is professor at

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, Paris and

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, Rome. He is founder and President of M&M - Idee per un Paese migliore, an influential think tank devoted to discuss and promote sound public policies, under the slogan "Policies behind Politics" (http://www.associazionemandm.org/) and President of the Advisory Board of the Bocconi PNRR Lab (https://www.sdabocconi.it/it/faculty-ricerche/lab-e-centri-di-ricerca/pnrr-lab/scopri). He has been Chief of Staff of the

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and has been Head of the G7 /

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Office of the

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and Special Political Counselor to the OECD Secretary-General, Angel Gurria. Within the

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, he served as economic counsellor and G20 Sherpa of the Prime Minister. He is a public speaker and advises governments on global issues.

Early life and career

Fabrizio Pagani studied international relations at the

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Pisa Pisa ( , or ) is a city and ''comune'' in Tuscany, central Italy, straddling the Arno just before it empties into the Ligurian Sea. It is the capital city of the Province of Pisa. Although Pisa is known worldwide for its leaning tower, the cit ...

and completed his master's degree at the

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. He has been a visiting scholar at the

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and at the

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, College Park. He was awarded the

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Research Fellowship in 1997. At the end of the '90s, he was Deputy Head at the Department of European Affairs of the Italian government and Senior Counsellor to the Minister of Industry and Trade. After having held positions at

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, he returned to Italy to become Chief of Staff for the

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, at the Office of the Italian Prime Minister (2006-208

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). He also served as member of the board of SACE, Italy's export credit agency. In 2009, he became Special Political Counselor to the

Secretary-General,

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, and Head of the G7 /

Office of the

. In this function, he participated for years in all the major international economic summits:

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, G7,

Public policies

Within

, he has served as economic counsellor and

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of the Prime Minister. In this capacity, he led the task force “Destinazione Italia”, a plan to attract foreign investment (https://www.mise.gov.it/images/stories/documenti/Destinazione_Italia_20-09-13.pdf). Fabrizio Pagani has been Head of the Office of Italy's Minister of Finance,

. Since 2014, for six years, he has been non-executive Director of

ENI Eni S.p.A. () is an Italian multinational energy company headquartered in Rome. Considered one of the seven "supermajor" oil companies in the world, it has operations in 69 countries with a market capitalization of US$54.08 billion, as of 11 Ap ...

and Chairman of ENI's advisory board, composed by energy and sustainability experts. He is part of several think tanks and policy units. His policy action has been inspired by free market principles and he has devised policies for the competitiveness of the Italian system, SMEs financing, banking system reform, bureaucratic simplification, including liberalization, privatization and attraction of private capital. Fabrizio Pagani

As part of

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and

Gentiloni Cabinet The Gentiloni government was the 64th government of the Italian Republic, in office from 12 December 2016 to 1 June 2018. The government was headed by Paolo Gentiloni, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Renzi government. The government ...

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). Pagani has been at the heart of the implementation of government privatization plan, in particular he worked on Poste Italiane IPO in October 2015 and

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listing in July 2016. He conceived and implemented the project "Italy is Next and Now" to attract financial institutions and

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in Italy, but in particular in Milan. He has been entrusted with the coordination of the “Milan European Financial Hub” Committee.

Current positions

Fabrizio Pagani is currently working in the financial sector in Italy and internationally and serves in corporate boards. He is professor at

Sciences Po , motto_lang = fr , mottoeng = Roots of the Future , type = Public university, Public research university''Grande école'' , established = , founder = Émile Boutmy , a ...

, Paris, Master in International Economic Policy, where he teaches the course: "Fighting ever Bigger Monsters – Economic Policies in Times of Crisis". He is the Founder and President of the Association M&M - Idee per un Paese migliore, a think tank which elaborates policies according to the motto: "Policies beyond Politics" and chairs the advisory committee of the

Bocconi Bocconi University ( it, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, ) is a private university in Milan, Italy. Bocconi provides education in the fields of economics, finance, law, management, political science, public administration and computer sci ...

PNRR Lab. He is a public speaker and contributes regularly to newspapers, TV, and social media on current affairs. He is an editorialist for Huffington Post Italia. He is the author of several books, including ''OECD Steel and Shipbuilding Subsidy Negotiations''. Fabrizio Pagani with Francine Lacqua at Bloomberg TV

Fabrizio Pagani with Francine Lacqua at Bloomberg TV

He advises governments on global issues.

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, Most-Favoured-Nation Treatment in International Investment Law, 3–5 (OECD Working Paper No. 2004/2, Sept. 2004) * Fabrizio Pagani, ''Are Pluriraleral Trade Agreements Possible Outside the World Trade Organisation?'', (2006) 40 Journal of World Trade, Issue 5, pp. 797 - 812 * Fabrizio Pagani,
The OECD Steel and Shipbuilding Subsidy Negotiations
', London, 2008 * Andrea de Guttry, Fs.abrizio Pagani, ''Le Nazioni Unite'', Bologna, second edition, 2010 * Fabrizio Pagani
''Italy's Autumn of Discontent''
Breakingviews, 4 September 2018 * Fabrizio Pagani,
Emerging Fault Lines: 2019 and Beyond
', London, 2019 * Fabrizio Pagani,
Finance for Growth: Here and Now...and Next
', London, 2019 * Carlo Altomonte, Fabrizio Pagani, ''Mutual debt is spectre haunting the EU'', Reuters Breakingviews, April 2020 * Andrea Garnero, Fabrizio Pagani, ''Dislocation will be 2021’s buzzword'', Reuters Breakingviews, January 2021 * Fabrizio Pagani, Debt, Digital, Climate. Are debt, digital and climate transforming central banking and the broader economy?

', London 2021

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Pagani, Fabrizio 1967 births Living people Italian economists European University Institute alumni Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies alumni People from Pisa