Vittorio Grilli

Vittorio Umberto Grilli ( born May 19, 1957 in Milan ) is an Italian economist. He has worked among others as a high school teacher, as a bank manager and as a ministry official. From July 2012 to April 2013 he was Economics and Finance of Italy.

Career

Vittorio Grilli studied at the Bocconi University in Milan. After graduating, he earned in the United States only one master and then a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Rochester, New York. In the United States he taught from 1986 to 1990 at Yale University from 1990 to 1994, in England at Birkbeck College, University of London.

He was appointed as a financial expert in an advisory board of the Italian Treasury Ministry in 1993. Between 1994 and 2000 he headed the Treasury Department, the Department of Economic and financial analyzes and privatizations from 1996 to 1997, the Department of the asset and debt management. There he worked as a Managing Director of Credit Suisse First Boston in London.

After the new Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance was formed in 2001 through a merger, Grilli took over in 2002 there the Budget Department ( Ragioneria Generale dello Stato ). From 2005 to 2011, he was under the governments of Silvio Berlusconi and Romano Prodi at the head of the Department of Treasury Affairs ( Dipartimento del Tesoro, Eng. Treasury). In addition, he also launched a working group that prepared the Ecofin meeting of EU finance ministers.

As Mario Monti was appointed on 16 November 2011 as Prime Minister and also Minister of Economy and Finance, Vittorio Grilli took over as Deputy Head of the Economy and Finance as Vice- Minister. On July 11, 2012 Monti transferred the auspices of the Ministry Vittorio Grilli all who are then fully valid member of the Cabinet was as a minister. Grilli kept the ministerial position until April 28, 2013, and then leave it to Fabrizio Manni Sacco.

Vittorio Grilli was in the course of time a member of management or supervisory bodies of the following companies, institutes and organizations: Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Cassa Depositi e Prestiti, Istituto Nazionale di Genetica molecolare, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Enel, Alitalia, Artigiancasse, CONSAP, CONSIP, Wind Telecomunicazioni, European Investment Bank, ISPE, ISAE, Arcus, Commissione di Garanzia per l' Informazione Statistica.

Vittorio Grilli is a member of the think tank Bruegel economics and the Aspen Institute Italia.