Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa Chair

in European Economic and Monetary Integration

 

Much more than many, Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa was a man of action and a man of reflection, who knew the importance of institutions as well as their limits. He provided to the EU critical inputs at critical moments. As Europe faces again a critical moment, it will be a duty for the holder of the Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa chair to be faithful to his spirit. 

Jean Pisani-Ferry, Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa Chair Holder
 

The Chair in European Economic and Monetary Integration at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies was established in 2014 in honour of Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, former Italian Minister of Finance (2006-2008), and a member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank (1998-2005) during the period preceding the launch of the EMU.

Widely recognized as one of the founding fathers of the European single currency, Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa was a committed European and a friend of the EUI. In 2009 he donated his archives to the Historical Archives of the European Union; a year later, his family endowed his personal book collection to the EUI Library.

The programme focuses on the analytical challenges and policy responses of international macroeconomics and finance in Europe. The Eurozone crisis has revealed the need to design economic institutions that can support a ‘currency without a state’ in the context of a wider European Union. Financial integration and regulation further broaden the domain beyond strictly monetary questions. Such a project requires not only political will and diplomatic negotiation, but also research that explores pragmatically various alternatives.

The Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa Chair is generously funded by Banca d'Italia, Assicurazioni Generali and Intesa Sanpaolo.

Jointly with the School of Transnational Governance, the Chair has launched the project ' The Transformation of Global Governance', a major research and policy analysis endeavour aiming to decipher the mutations global governance is undergoing in a series of fields, and to assess the effectiveness of the emerging arrangements.

More information on the project 'The Transformation of Global Governance' >>

https://tgg.eui.eu/

Upcoming events

 

8-9 September 2021

The reform of the European fiscal framework and its implication for Italy (Restricted workshop)

Hybrid workshop (in Florence and online)

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9-10 September 2021

The future of the EU economic policy system: Economic requirements and legal conditions

CEPR-EUI Hybrid Seminar (in Florence and online)

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Jean Pisani-Ferry

Jean Pisani-Ferry holds the Tommaso Padoa Schioppa chair of the European University Institute in Florence. He is a Senior Fellow at Bruegel, the European think tank, and a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute (Washington DC). He is a professor of economics with Sciences Po (Paris). He sits on the supervisory board of the French Caisse des Dépôts.

In the first half of 2017, Pisani-Ferry contributed to Emmanuel Macron’s presidential bid as the Director of programme and ideas of his campaign. Beforehand, he served from 2013 to end-2016 as Commissioner-General of France Stratégie, the ideas lab of the French government.

Prior to this appointment, he was from 2005 to 2013 the Founding Director of Bruegel, the Brussels-based economic think tank that he had contributed to create. Before creating Bruegel, he was Executive President of the French PM’s Council of Economic Analysis (2001-2002), Senior Economic Adviser to the French Minister of Finance (1997-2000), and Director of CEPII, the French institute for international economics (1992-1997).

Pisani-Ferry has taught at University Paris-Dauphine, École Polytechnique, École Centrale and the Free University of Brussels.

Pisani-Ferry’s publications include numerous books and articles on economic policy and European policy issues. He has also been an active contributor to public debates with regular columns in the international media.

Topics

The Chair’s topics of interest derive from research questions arising from the Transformation of Global Governance project, which covers but is not limited to issues of international trade, capital flows and safety nets, cross-border migrations, competition policy, taxation coordination, banking regulation, climate change adaptation and mitigation, digital technologies and their effects, and global health. These topics include:

  • Historical development of governance arrangements: conditions of creation, change, stasis, and deepening or decline.
  • New configurations of current governance arrangements: contested or weak international organisations, clubs or networks, working through orchestration and soft law instruments.
  • New actors in governance arrangements: NGOs/CSOs, private sector, sub-national authorities, epistemic communities and other non-state stakeholders, and how they are integrated in governance arrangements.
  • Interactions of governance arrangements: interference, synergy, subsumption or hierarchisation.
  • Global public goods provision through governance arrangements: identification of spillovers and joint products, aggregation method, and underlying game.
  • Role of the EU in guaranteeing the viability of current governance arrangements and fostering conditions of their reform.

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Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa

Tommaso Padoa SchioppaTommaso Padoa-Schioppa, (23 July 1940 – 18 December 2010) was a former Minister of Economy and Finance in Italy, a long-time member of the European Central Bank executive board, and former President of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision.

Mr. Padoa-Schioppa is widely considered to be a founding father of the European single currency. He was a firm believer in the benefits of, and the need for, a single global financial reporting language in international financial markets.

His publications include The Euro and its Central Bank (2004), Regulating Finance: Balancing Freedom and Risk (2004) and Europa una pazienza attiva (2006).

Past Chair Holder

PortesRichardRichard Portes, inaugural holder of the Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa Chair at the EUI until September 2017, is Professor of Economics at London Business School, Founder and President of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), and Co-Chairman of the Board of Economic Policy.

He is an elected Fellow of the Econometric Society and of the British Academy. He is a member of the Advisory Scientific Committee to the European Systemic Risk Board, of the Steering Committee of the Euro50 Group, and of the Bellagio Group on the International Economy.

His current research interests include international macroeconomics, international finance, European bond markets and European integration. He holds three honorary doctorates.

 

Chair Holder


Pisani-Ferry-Jean

Jean Pisani-Ferry

Team

Administrative assistant 
Naïs Ralaison
Email: [email protected]
Tel. [+39] 055 4685 984

Communications
Jan Trevisan
Email: [email protected]
Tel. [+39] 055 4685 802 

Project manager 
Donato di Bartolomeo
Email: [email protected]
Tel. [+39] 055 4685 922 

Research assistant
Adrien Bradley
Email: [email protected]

Donors

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