Fiorella Kostoris Padoa Schioppa

Fiorella Kostoris Padoa Schioppa (also given as Fiorella Kostoris-Padoa Schioppa) is Professor at the Department of Economics of the University of Rome "La Sapienza" (since 1989) on leave at CIVR since 2003. An Italian economist who is also a professor at the College of Europe in Bruges (2001-2002).

President (1999-2003) of Institute of Economic Studies and Analyses (ISAE), the Italian government-funded economic think tank until March 2003. After a Masters Degree in Science in Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1968, she became the author of several books including (1993)Italy: The Sheltered Economy. The ISAE reports which offer forecasts on the Italian Economy have the ear of the government, and are presided over by Schioppa.

Other affiliations include the Global Aging Initiative Program by the (CIA-connected) Center For Strategic & International Studies.

She is also a member of the Committee of Coordination of Presidents of the Italian Research Bodies (1999-2003); member of the General Council of the Aspen Institute Italy from 1994-2003; she was a Research Fellow in the Public Policy Programme of the (CEPR) Centre for Economic Policy Research in London (since 1989).

She is currently member of the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung “Brussel’s Initiative” (since 1998), member of the (CAE) Conseil d’Analyse Economique (since 1999), member of Eurogroup of 50 (since 1999), member of the Consultative Council of the (CEPS) Centre for European Policy Studies (since 2000), she joined the Consultative Committee of the Centre for European Reform in 2001 and member of the Executive Committee of the (IEA) International Economic Association (since 2002), Committee for Evaluation of Research (CIVR). Since May 2003 she is part of the Technical Secretariat for Research Programming of the Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR).

She was a Visiting Professor at the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques of Paris and at the Department of Economics of Columbia University; Visiting Scholar at the Université Catholique de Louvain Politiques of Paris and at the Department of Economics of Columbia University, Visiting Scholar at MIT, at the Université Catholique de Louvain (CORE) and at the University of Brussels.

Other appointments according to a 2008 CVinclude:

• Jemolo Fellow at the Nuffield College (Oxford)

• Research Fellow at the Italian Academy of Columbia (CORE) and at the University of Brussels;

• Consultant for the International Monetary Fund, European Department.

• One of the 7 Members of CIVR (Committee for research carried out by all Irish Universities and by Public and Private Research Institutes in all the scientific fields) appointed by the Government in 2003 for the evaluation of the years 2001-2003 and reappointed in 2007 for the evaluation of the years 2004-2006.

• President of Sella Gestioni SGR SPA, with the role of Chairman of the Board of Directors of Saddle Investment Funds (since 2007).

• Counterpart for Italy of the Bertelsmann Foundation’s International Reform Monitor Project (since 1999).

• Member of the Advisory Committee of ANIA – Associazione Nazionale delle Imprese Assicuratrici (since 2005).

• Member of the Scientific Board of the Enciclopedia Treccani (since 2005).

• Member of the Advisory Board of ITMedia Consulting (since 2006).

• Member of the Scientific Committee of the Fondazione Luigi Einaudi (since 2006).

• Member of the Board of Directors of the EBRI Foundation –European Brain Research Institute – (since 2007).

• Member of the Advisory Board of CBM – Centro di Biomedicina Molecolare – (since 2007).

• Member of the Scientific Committe of ANIE – National Association of Electric and Electronic Enterprises – (since 2007).

• Member of the Business Forum on Multilingualism, established by the European Commission in 2007.

• Editor of the Economics Book Series for the Publisher Ulrico Hoepli, Milan (1984 - 1998 and since 2003).

• Editorialist for the Italian Newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore (since 2003) and The Riformista (since 2006).

• Author and speaker of the weekly Radio Broadcast Lessico dell’economia for Radio Radicale (since 2003).

• Author and speaker of the weekly Radio Broadcast of the lexicon for Radical Radio (since 2003)

This gives her research interests as: Macroeconomics, Labour, Public Finance, European Economics and Economic Policy, Pension Reform, Social Mobility, Poverty and Education, Fiscal Federalism and Redistribution, Gender Equality, Regional Economics, Cultural Heritage, Inequality and Globalisation.

Her former husband Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, has been called the “intellectual impetus” behind the Euro and the “founding father” of the Euro (he then worked on designing and setting up the new European Central Bank and became one of the first executive board members) and was appointed Economy and Finance Minister in the government of Romano Prodi, and Since October 2007 he has been Chairman of the IMFC (International Monetary and Financial Committee) which is the top policy steering committee of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).