Domenico Siniscalco

Domenico Siniscalco ( born July 15, 1954 in Turin ) is an Italian economist. He was Italian Minister of Economy and Finance of 16 July 2004 to 22 September 2005, the second and third term of office of each led by Silvio Berlusconi Cabinet. Today, he is vice chairman of investment bank Morgan Stanley Europe, and there is also the Head of the Department Italy.

Life

Siniscalco first visited the State Liceo Classico Alfieri in Turin. At the University of Turin he studied law, then he obtained at the University of Cambridge doctoral degree (Ph.D. ) in Economics.

From 1990 to 2006 he was a full professor of Economic Policy at the University of Turin. In addition, he taught at the private LUISS University in Rome, at the University of Cagliari, the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore (USA) and at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium ). He headed a foundation and was consultant to a number of listed companies, such as ENI and Telecom Italia. Siniscalco has authored over thirty scientific publications on topics such as privatization, environmental economics and industrial economics in national and international journals, was also a columnist for the business newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore.

Nominated as Director General of the Treasury in the first Berlusconi government, he was from July 16, 2004 Minister of Economy and Finance in the government of Berlusconi II as successor to the retiring Minister Giulio Tremonti. While maintaining the position of Director-General until the following spring In the next government ( Berlusconi III) Although he was reconfirmed in his ministerial office, but resigned on 22 September 2005, as it did not support the government for its support of the resignation of Antonio Fazio of his post as governor of the Bank of Italy because of a bribery scandal received, and because of disagreements about other financial issues. He was replaced by his predecessor, Giulio Tremonti.

On 24 April 2006, he was Managing Director and Vice- President of Morgan Stanley International, responsible for Europe. On 1 December 2007, he also took over the management of the country's departments Italy at Morgan Stanley.