Corrado Passera

Corrado Passera ( born December 30, 1954 in Como, Lombardy ) is an Italian manager and politician. In the Monti government he headed from November 2011 to April 2013, the Ministries of Infrastructure and Transport as well as economy.

Career

After completing his business degree from the Bocconi University in Milan Passera made ​​in 1980 at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania 's Master of Business Administration and then spent five years with McKinsey & Company. Subsequently, he was until 1990 when the CIR Group of Carlo De Benedetti, most recently as Director General. In 1991 he became general manager of the publishing house Arnoldo Mondadori Editore and then the media company Gruppo Editoriale L' Espresso. At the same time, he was from 1992 to 1996 Co- Chief Executive Officer of Olivetti, a company that has been significantly remodeled at this time. In 1996, Passera, the head of Banco Ambrosiano, which he merged with the Milan savings bank Banca Intesa 1998. In 1998 he was appointed head of the Italian Post. In the following four years, he reorganized the company, its services were extended to the banking system. After the restructuring, in the course were dropped around 20,000 jobs, post 2002 first drew profits. Passera returned to become CEO of Banca Intesa, which he united in 2006 with the Turin bank Sanpaolo IMI 's second-largest Italian bank Intesa Sanpaolo. In 2008 and 2009 he was involved in the founding of the airline Alitalia.

On November 16, 2011 Corrado Passera was appointed Minister in the group consisting of non-party experts from government, Mario Monti. He took over the leadership of the Ministry of Economic Development ( Industry and Trade) and the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport. In the latter, a Ministry Vice Minister led Passeras under supervision a large part of his official duties.