Bio
Daniele Franco holds a degree in political science (University of Padua), an M.A. in business administration (University of Padua) and an M.Sc. in economics (University of York). He joined the Bank of Italy in 1979. From 1994 to 1997, he served as economic adviser at the European Commission. From 1997 to 2013, he was at the Bank of Italy, and from 2011 served as managing director of economics, research and international relations. From 1999 to 2007, he was chairman of the Working Group on Public Finance at the European Central Bank. From May 2013 to May 2019, he was state general accountant at the Ministry of Economics and Finance. In May 2019, he joined the Governing Board of the Bank of Italy; from January 2020 to February 2021, he was senior deputy governor and president of the insurance supervisory authority. From February 2021 to October 2022, he was minister of economy and finance. In 2020, he chaired the Group of Twenty meetings of finance ministers and central bank governors.
He taught courses at the Universities of Bergamo and Trieste, at the Università Cattolica in Milan and at the Scuola Superiore della Pubblica Amministrazione in Rome. He has written several books and papers on public finance, fiscal policy and macroeconomic issues. He is currently scientific director of the Fondazione Cini in Venice and chairman of the Fondazione Ospedale A. Gemelli in Rome.