Giordano Dell'Amore (30 November 1902 in

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– 6 January 1981 in

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) was an Italian

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and

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Biography

Dell'Amore was born in

of Italian parents. Returned to his homeland while still boy and completed his studies in

at the

Bocconi University Bocconi University or Università Bocconi (formally known in Italian language, Italian as ''Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi'' – Luigi Bocconi Commercial University) is a private university in Milan, Italy. The university is consistently ...

, Faculty of Business Administration and Economics. While a student he was deeply influenced by the guide of

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and Gino Zappa, but only the latter actually became his mentor in the academic and research career in the early thirties. In the early fifties he met and developed friendship and cooperation with

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and

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. He had also relations of friendly competitive collaboration with Raffaele Mattioli, chairman of

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, and Enrico Cuccia, chairman of

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. In these years he became distinguished Professor of Banking at his alma mater, where, later, served also as rector. Among his students may be mentioned several prominent Italian bankers and economists as

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, Mario Arcelli, Tommaso Padoa Schioppa, Fiorella Kostoris,

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, Roberto Mazzotta and

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. A number of pupils shared his scientific views and became professors in leading Italian universities: among them Francesco Arcucci, Alberto Arienti, Alberto Bertoni, Tancredi Bianchi, Sergio Bortolani,

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, Arnaldo Mauri, Paolo Mottura,

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, Antonio Pin, Antonio Porteri, and Roberto Ruozi. In 1952 Dell'Amore was appointed Chairman of the board of directors of one of the main Italian banks,

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and later also elected President of the Associazione fra le Casse di Risparmio Italiane as well as in 1969 President of the ''International Savings Banks Institute'' (ISBI) in

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, now

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. As president of ISBI he met the British prime minister

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at the X World Savings Banks Congress held in London in 1972. Under the guide of Dell'Amore the Lombardy's Savings Bank was shaken out its traditional conservative mould to become transformed in the space of two decades into a dynamic modern financial institution. During that period, its deposits climbed 18 times in real terms while its branch network doubled and its employees tripled in number. In 1970 he met in Milan

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and the Ethiopian Minister of Finance Mammo Tadesse to discuss programs on technical assistance to Ethiopia in the field of household savings mobilisation. In 1973, he established in Milan ''Finafrica Foundation'' with the aim to help the improvement of African financial systems by means of training, providing technical assistance and research. Dell'Amore had also relevant roles in politics: Governor of the Province of

, Senator of the

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in 1963 and previously, in 1954, Minister of foreign trade in the government led by

. His funeral was celebrated in Milan by the cardinal

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. In February 2006 a square in the centre of

(nearby

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Opera House) has been named after Giordano Dell'Amore."Una piazzetta intitolata a Giordano Dell'Amore", ''Il Corriere della Sera'', 28 February 2006, p. 4; Giancarlo Galli, ''Giordano Dell'Amore il gran banchiere bianco'', Economia Finanza, 2006, p. 55

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dellamore, Giordano Bocconi University alumni 1902 births 1981 deaths Members of the Senate of the Republic (Italy) Italian expatriates in Egypt Academic staff of Bocconi University 20th-century Italian economists Presidents of the Province of Milan