Trustee Chairman
Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa is President of Notre Europe and Chairman of Promontory Europe. He was Italian Minister of Economy and Finance (2006-08) and Chairman of the Ministerial Committee of the International Monetary Fund (2007-08).
He served as Chairman of the Trustees of the International Accounting Standards Committee Foundation from January 2006 until he was appointed Italian Minister of Economy and Finance. He was a member of the first Executive Board of the European Central Bank (1998-2005). Previously he was Chairman of the Commissione Nazionale per le Società e la Borsa (1997-98), Deputy Director General of the Banca d’Italia (1984-97) and Director General for Economic and Financial Affairs at the Commission of the European Communities (1979-83).
He has been Joint Secretary to the Delors Committee (1988-89), Chairman of the Banking Advisory Committee of the EC (1988-91), Chairman of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (1993‑97) and Chairman of the Committee on Payment and Settlement Systems (2000-05).
He is the author of a number of books and articles on economic and financial matters as well as on European and international affairs.
He graduated from Luigi Bocconi University and has an MSc from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.