Mario MONTI

Bio

Mario Monti is Senator for life of the Italian Republic. He was Prime Minister of Italy (2011-2013), heading a government of national unity, which overcame Italy’s sovereign debt crisis and launched structural reforms. Monti had previously served as European Commissioner for the Single Market (1995-1999) and then for Competition (1999-2004). He chaired several advisory commissions, among which the EU High-level Group on Own Resources (2014-2017) and the WHO Pan-European Commission on Health and Sustainable Development (2020-2021). Monti was professor of Economics at the Universities of Trento and Turin and then at Bocconi University, where he was President between 1994-2022.