Born in
Bergamo, Giavazzi graduated in electrical engineering from the
Politecnico di Milano university in 1972 and obtained a
PhD in economics from
Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1978 under the supervision of
Rudi Dornbusch. In addition to being a professor at Bocconi University in
Milan, he is a Research Fellow and a Trustee of
Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), a member of the Strategic Committee of
Agence France Trésor, and of the Group of Economic Policy Advisers to the President of the
European Commission,
José Manuel Barroso. During 2004, he was the Houblon-Norman Fellow at the
Bank of England. During the
D'Alema government (1998–2000) he was a member of the Council of Economic Advisers to the Italian prime minister. He was Director General of the Italian Treasury responsible for debt management and
privatizations from 1992 to 1994. From 1991 to 1999, Giavazzi was an editor of the
European Economic Review. He is also well known for his editorials in Italy's leading daily
Corriere della Sera. He contributes to the economics web sites Voxeu.org and LaVoce.info. In 2015, Giavazzi wrote a scathing denunciation of Greeks. His polemic was criticized by Karl Whelan, a professor of economics at
University College Dublin. == References ==