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'''Lorenzo Bini Smaghi''' (born 29 November 1956 in [[Florence]]) is an Italian economist who is currently Chairman of [[Société Générale]], a French multinational banking and financial services company.
'''Lorenzo Bini Smaghi''' (born 29 November 1956 in [[Florence]]) is an Italian economist who is currently Chairman of [[Société Générale]], a French multinational banking and financial services company.


==Early life and education==
==Biography==
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Bini Smaghi grew up in Brussels (Belgium), acquiring a knowledge of foreign languages at an early age. In 1974 he graduated from the [[Lycée Français]] de Bruxelles. In 1978 he graduated in Economics from the [[Université Catholique de Louvain]] (Belgium). With a scholarship from the [[U.S.-Italy Fulbright Commission]], in 1980 he received a [[master's degree]] in Economics from the [[University of Southern California]]; and a [[Ph.D.]] from the [[University of Chicago]] in 1988.
He is Visiting Scholar at Harvard's [[Weatherhead Center for International Affairs]] and Senior Research Fellow at [[Istituto Affari Internazionali]] in Rome. He has been a Member of the [[Executive Board of the European Central Bank]]<ref>[http://www.ecb.int ECB]</ref> from June 2005 to November 2011. In the ECB Executive Board he was responsible for international and European relations and for the legal department of the Bank and for its administration, including the building of a [[Seat of the European Central Bank|new seat for the ECB]] in the Frankfurt Grossmarkthalle.


==Career==
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Lorenzo Bini Smaghi grew up in Brussels (Belgium), acquiring a knowledge of foreign languages at an early age. In 1974 he graduated from the [[Lycée Français]] de Bruxelles. In 1978 he graduated in Economics from the [[Université Catholique de Louvain]] (Belgium). With a scholarship from the [[U.S.-Italy Fulbright Commission]], in 1980 he received a [[master's degree]] in Economics from the [[University of Southern California]]; and a [[Ph.D.]] from the [[University of Chicago]] in 1988.
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Before joining the ECB, Bini Smaghi was Director General for International Financial Relations of the Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance. His earlier appointments include: Deputy Director-General Research of the ECB, Head of the Policy Division of the European Monetary Institute (Frankfurt) and Head of the Exchange Rate and International Trade Division of the Research Department of Banca d’Italia (Rome). He has published extensively in monetary and international economics.


Bini Smaghi served as Member of the [[Executive Board of the European Central Bank]]<ref>[http://www.ecb.int ECB]</ref> from June 2005 to November 2011; he was appointed for an eight-year, non-renewable mandate.<ref>Ralph Atkins (November 10, 2011), [https://www.ft.com/content/1ba7a48c-0bc3-11e1-9310-00144feabdc0 Bini Smaghi quits ECB after French pressure] ''[[Financial Times]]''.</ref> In the ECB Executive Board he was responsible for international and European relations and for the legal department of the Bank and for its administration, including the building of a [[Seat of the European Central Bank|new seat for the ECB]] in the Frankfurt Grossmarkthalle. During his time in office, he also gained a reputation for occasionally openly criticised the German government over the handling of the [[European debt crisis]].<ref>Ralph Atkins (November 10, 2011), [https://www.ft.com/content/1ba7a48c-0bc3-11e1-9310-00144feabdc0 Bini Smaghi quits ECB after French pressure] ''[[Financial Times]]''.</ref>
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Before joining the ECB, he was Director General for International Financial Relations of the Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance. His earlier appointments include: Deputy Director-General Research of the ECB, Head of the Policy Division of the European Monetary Institute (Frankfurt) and Head of the Exchange Rate and International Trade Division of the Research Department of Banca d’Italia (Rome). He has published extensively in monetary and international economics.


Bini Smaghi resigned from the ECB in November 2011. At the time, he had been under pressure from the French and Italian governments to step down for several months, after [[Mario Draghi]], another Italian, become president of the ECB.<ref>Simon Taylor (November 11, 2011), [https://www.politico.eu/article/ecbs-bini-smaghi-quits/ ECB’s Bini Smaghi quits] ''[[European Voice]]''.</ref> At the same time, he was lobbied by his colleagues on the executive board not to be seen as being under the control of politicians.<ref>Ralph Atkins (November 10, 2011), [https://www.ft.com/content/1ba7a48c-0bc3-11e1-9310-00144feabdc0 Bini Smaghi quits ECB after French pressure] ''[[Financial Times]]''.</ref>
He resigned from the ECB in November 2011.


In 2012, Bini Smaghi became a Visiting Scholar at Harvard's [[Weatherhead Center for International Affairs]] and Senior Research Fellow at [[Istituto Affari Internazionali]] in Rome.
Lorenzo Bini Smaghi is also President of the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi,<ref>[http://www.palazzostrozzi.org/ Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi]</ref> a mixed private-public institution which promotes cultural initiatives in Florence. He is married and has two children.


January 2015 : He is Chairman of French bank [[Société Générale]].<ref>[https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2015-01-19/societe-generale-names-former-ecb-member-bini-smaghi-as-chairman.html SG names Bini Smaghi Chairman]</ref>
Bini Smaghi joined French bank [[Société Générale]] as a second vice-chairman and independent director in 2014. Since January 2015, he has been serving as Chairman of the Board of Directors.<ref>[https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2015-01-19/societe-generale-names-former-ecb-member-bini-smaghi-as-chairman.html SG names Bini Smaghi Chairman]</ref> Société Générale had previously split the roles of chairman and chief executive as required by European law, appointing Bini Smaghi to chair the board of directors while [[Frédéric Oudéa]] continued as chief executive.<ref>Martin Arnold and Michael Stothard (January 19, 2015), [https://www.ft.com/content/bdbbfa68-9f75-11e4-ba25-00144feab7de Société Générale splits chairman and chief’s roles] ''[[Financial Times]]''.</ref>

==Other activities==
===Corporate boards===
* [[Italgas]], Non-Executive Member and Chair of the Board of Directors<ref>[https://www.italgas.it/en/biographies/Lorenzo-Bini-Smaghi/ Lorenzo Bini Smaghi] [[Italgas]].</ref>
* Tages Holding, Member of the Board of Directors<ref>[https://www.belfercenter.org/person/lorenzo-bini-smaghi Lorenzo Bini Smaghi] [[Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs]], [[Harvard University]].</ref>
* [[Morgan Stanley|Morgan Stanley International]], Independent Member of the Board of Directors<ref>Martin Arnold and Michael Stothard (January 19, 2015), [https://www.ft.com/content/bdbbfa68-9f75-11e4-ba25-00144feab7de Société Générale splits chairman and chief’s roles] ''[[Financial Times]]''.</ref>
* [[Snam]], Chair of the Board of Directors (2012-2016)<ref>Martin Arnold and Michael Stothard (January 19, 2015), [https://www.ft.com/content/bdbbfa68-9f75-11e4-ba25-00144feab7de Société Générale splits chairman and chief’s roles] ''[[Financial Times]]''.</ref>
===Non-profit organizations===
* [[European Financial Services Roundtable]] (EFR), Member<ref>[http://www.efr.be/documents/news/107.1.%20EFR%20report%2023.03.2017.pdf 2017 Annual Report] [[European Financial Services Roundtable]] (EFR).</ref>
* Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, President<ref>[http://www.palazzostrozzi.org/ Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi]</ref>

==Personal life==
Bini Smaghi is married and has two children.


==Publications==
==Publications==

Revision as of 10:28, 8 December 2019

Lorenzo Bini Smaghi
Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank
In office
1 June 2005 – 1 November 2011
Preceded byTommaso Padoa-Schioppa
Succeeded byBenoît Cœuré
Personal details
Born (1956-11-29) 29 November 1956 (age 68)
Florence, Italy
EducationUniversité catholique de Louvain
University of Southern California
University of Chicago

Lorenzo Bini Smaghi (born 29 November 1956 in Florence) is an Italian economist who is currently Chairman of Société Générale, a French multinational banking and financial services company.

Early life and education

Bini Smaghi grew up in Brussels (Belgium), acquiring a knowledge of foreign languages at an early age. In 1974 he graduated from the Lycée Français de Bruxelles. In 1978 he graduated in Economics from the Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium). With a scholarship from the U.S.-Italy Fulbright Commission, in 1980 he received a master's degree in Economics from the University of Southern California; and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1988.

Career

Before joining the ECB, Bini Smaghi was Director General for International Financial Relations of the Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance. His earlier appointments include: Deputy Director-General Research of the ECB, Head of the Policy Division of the European Monetary Institute (Frankfurt) and Head of the Exchange Rate and International Trade Division of the Research Department of Banca d’Italia (Rome). He has published extensively in monetary and international economics.

Bini Smaghi served as Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank[1] from June 2005 to November 2011; he was appointed for an eight-year, non-renewable mandate.[2] In the ECB Executive Board he was responsible for international and European relations and for the legal department of the Bank and for its administration, including the building of a new seat for the ECB in the Frankfurt Grossmarkthalle. During his time in office, he also gained a reputation for occasionally openly criticised the German government over the handling of the European debt crisis.[3]

Bini Smaghi resigned from the ECB in November 2011. At the time, he had been under pressure from the French and Italian governments to step down for several months, after Mario Draghi, another Italian, become president of the ECB.[4] At the same time, he was lobbied by his colleagues on the executive board not to be seen as being under the control of politicians.[5]

In 2012, Bini Smaghi became a Visiting Scholar at Harvard's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and Senior Research Fellow at Istituto Affari Internazionali in Rome.

Bini Smaghi joined French bank Société Générale as a second vice-chairman and independent director in 2014. Since January 2015, he has been serving as Chairman of the Board of Directors.[6] Société Générale had previously split the roles of chairman and chief executive as required by European law, appointing Bini Smaghi to chair the board of directors while Frédéric Oudéa continued as chief executive.[7]

Other activities

Corporate boards

Non-profit organizations

Personal life

Bini Smaghi is married and has two children.

Publications

Author of several articles and books on international and European monetary and financial issues.

  • La tentazione di andarsene. Fuori dall’Europa c’è un futuro per l’Italia?, Il Mulino Ed., Bologna, 2017.
  • 33 false verità sull’Europa, Il Mulino Ed., Bologna, 2014.
  • Austerity, European Democracies against the wall, CEPS, Brussels, 2013.
  • Morire di Austerità, Democrazie europee con le spalle al muro, Il Mulino Bologna, 2013.
  • Il paradosso dell'euro. Luci e ombre dieci anni dopo, Rizzoli, Milano 2008.
  • L’Euro, Il Mulino, Bologna, 1998 (Third Edition: 2001).
  • Open Issues in European Central Banking, Macmillan, London, 2000 (with Daniel Gros)
  • Chi ci salva dalla prossima crisi finanziaria?, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2000.

Notes

  1. ^ ECB
  2. ^ Ralph Atkins (November 10, 2011), Bini Smaghi quits ECB after French pressure Financial Times.
  3. ^ Ralph Atkins (November 10, 2011), Bini Smaghi quits ECB after French pressure Financial Times.
  4. ^ Simon Taylor (November 11, 2011), ECB’s Bini Smaghi quits European Voice.
  5. ^ Ralph Atkins (November 10, 2011), Bini Smaghi quits ECB after French pressure Financial Times.
  6. ^ SG names Bini Smaghi Chairman
  7. ^ Martin Arnold and Michael Stothard (January 19, 2015), Société Générale splits chairman and chief’s roles Financial Times.
  8. ^ Lorenzo Bini Smaghi Italgas.
  9. ^ Lorenzo Bini Smaghi Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University.
  10. ^ Martin Arnold and Michael Stothard (January 19, 2015), Société Générale splits chairman and chief’s roles Financial Times.
  11. ^ Martin Arnold and Michael Stothard (January 19, 2015), Société Générale splits chairman and chief’s roles Financial Times.
  12. ^ 2017 Annual Report European Financial Services Roundtable (EFR).
  13. ^ Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi

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