Mario Monti
Mario Monti
Born:
March 19, 1943, Varese, Italy (age 81)
Title / Office:
prime minister (2011-2013), Italy

Mario Monti (born March 19, 1943, Varese, Italy) Italian economist, academic, and bureaucrat who served as prime minister of Italy (2011–13). Monti, the son of a banker, studied economics and management at Bocconi University in Milan and received a degree in 1965. He then pursued graduate studies at Yale University under the tutelage of American economist James Tobin. Monti taught briefly at the University of Trento (1969–70) and began a post at the University of Turin (1970–79) before returning to Bocconi University in 1971 as a professor of monetary theory and policy. He later directed (1985–94) the school’s Institute of ...(100 of 574 words)