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- Mario Draghi is an Italian economist, academic, banker and civil servant who has served as prime minister of Italy since February 2021. Prior to his appointment as prime minister, he served as President of the European Central Bank (ECB) between 2011 and 2019. Draghi was also Chair of the Financial Stability Board between 2009 and 2011, and Governor of the Bank of Italy between 2006 and 2011.- IMDb Mini Biography By: plw
- He grew up in a middle-class background as the son of a high-ranking banker at the Italian central bank. The father died while still a child in 1962; A little later, his mother also did, and he was responsible for his younger siblings at an early age. Meanwhile, Draghi attended the Jesuit-run Catholic private school Istituto Massimo in Rome. After graduating from university, he studied economics under Federico Caffè, among others, at the University of La Sapienza, Rome. He completed his education at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge near Boston, where Draghi took part in lectures by Nobel Prize winners such as Franco Modigliani and Paul A. Samuelson and the economists Rudiger Dornbusch and Stanley Fischer, among others.
In 1976 he received his Ph.D. from MIT. He then worked for Italy within the World Bank. From 1981 to 1991 Draghi was appointed professor at the University of Florence; from 2001 he taught at Harvard University. From 2002 to 2005 he was appointed Vice President of the US investment bank Goldman Sachs in London. He also became a member of the supervisory boards of Eni, IRI and Banca Nazionale del Lavoro. In 2005, the economist became a member of the Council of the ECB and, as governor of the Banca d'Italia, head of the Italian central bank, which at the time was rocked by scandals caused by his predecessor Antonio Fazio. He quickly restored confidence in the institution. He also headed the Financial Stability Forum at the headquarters of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) in Basel.
Draghi earned widespread recognition in the financial world. He was awarded the Grand Cross of the Italian Order of Merit. After Axel Weber, who was considered the successor to ECB President Jean-Claude Trichet, resigned from his position as President of the German Bundesbank, observers quickly agreed on Draghi as the new favorite for the post. The Roman's official designation was made by the Council of the European Union on May 17, 2011. On June 24, 2011, he was officially designated by the European Council as the successor to the outgoing Jean-Claude Trichet. Mario Draghi took up the office of ECB President, for which he was elected until 2019, on November 1, 2011. His inauguration immediately presented him with a Herculean task; In the first dramatic crisis of the euro and the impending bankruptcy of numerous European countries, it was about nothing less than protecting the currency from collapse.
Meanwhile, the new administration of the European Central Bank was built on the former wholesale market site in Frankfurt am Main by 2014.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Christian_Wolfgang_Barth
- Prime Minister of Italy (2021-2022).
- President of the European Central Bank (2011-2019).
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