Giovanni Tria

Giovanni Tria has been an Independent Director of the Bank since July 2022. Mr. Giovanni Tria is an economist with more than 40 years of academic and professional experience in the fields of macroeconomics, price policies, economic development policies, business cycle and growth, public investment assessment and project evaluation, role of the institutions on the process of growth, economics of crime and economics of corruption, service sector and public sector economics. Mr. Tria received his degree in Law from University in Rome “La Sapienza” in 1971, then became associate professor and full professor of Political Economy at Faculty of Economics, the University of Rome Tor Vergata, where he served as Dean of the Faculty from 2016 to May 2018 until he was appointed Minister of Economic and Finance of Italy in the Conte 1 Cabinet and member of the IMF Board of Governors from June 2018 to September 2019.

He served as Director of Center for Economic and international Studies at University of Rome Tor Vergata from 2000 to 2009 and as President of Italian National School of Administration from 2010 to 2016.