Alberto Giovannini

Alberto Giovannini (1955 – 25 April 2019) was an Italian Macroeconomist and Financial Economist. His career spanned roles in academia, public and private organizations, and his contributions to monetary policy and financial market infrastructure in the European Union (EU) were particularly notable. He died on 25 April 2019.

Education Giovannini graduated in economics from the University of Bologna. He obtained his Ph.D. in economics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1984.

Career Giovannini taught finance and economics at Columbia Business School, and was also a fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). In 1995 he joined Long-Term Capital Management as senior advisor and strategist. One of the earliest CEPR Research Fellow appointees, he authored 17 CEPR Discussion Papers in the period 1986–2010, on various topics in international macroeconomics and financial markets. He also collaborated on 6 CEPR Reports in the period 1989–2009. The reports reflected on monetary policies, and were influential, particularly the ones on the financial integration of and the monetary policy directions in Europe.

Giovannini was called in 1993 to head the International Debt Office at the Italian Treasury by Mario Draghi who was then general director of the Treasury.

Personal life Giovannini was an avid mountain climber. He considered his scaling of the Tofana di Rozes south wall, along the Alvera-Pompanin route as his best achievement as a climber.