Fabrizio Pagani (Pisa, January 4, 1967) is an Italian economist and public policy expert. He is working in the financial sector in Italy and internationally and serves in corporate boards. He is professor at Sciences Po, Paris and Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli, Rome.
Within the Letta Cabinet, he served as economic counsellor and G20 Sherpa of the Prime Minister. He is a public speaker and advises governments on global issues.
He was awarded the NATO Research Fellowship in 1997.[1] At the end of the '90s, he was Deputy Head at the Department of European Affairs of the Italian government and Senior Counsellor to the Minister of Industry and Trade.
After having held positions at OECD in Paris, he returned to Italy to become Chief of Staff for the Undersecretary of State, Enrico Letta, at the Office of the Italian Prime Minister (2006-208 Prodi II Cabinet). He also served as member of the board of SACE, Italy's export credit agency.
In 2009, he became Special Political Counselor to the OECD Secretary-General, José Ángel Gurría, and Head of the G7 / G20 Office of the OECD. In this function, he participated for years in all the major international economic summits: IMF, G7, G20.
Fabrizio Pagani has been Head of the Office of Italy's Minister of Finance, Pier Carlo Padoan. Since 2014, for six years, he has been non-executive Director of ENI and Chairman of ENI's advisory board, composed by energy and sustainability experts. He is part of several think tanks and policy units.
His policy action has been inspired by free market principles and he has devised policies for the competitiveness of the Italian system, SMEs financing, banking system reform, bureaucratic simplification, including liberalization, privatization and attraction of private capital.
As part of Renzi Cabinet and Gentiloni Cabinet economic policy, Pagani created the "Finance for Growth" project which led to the Competitiveness Law Decree (June 2014), "Unlock Italy" Decree (August 2014), to the reform of the banking System (Investment Compact decree – January 2015), and to the Reform of Popular Banks and the Guarantee on Securitization of Bank Non Performing Loans (GACS) (February 2016).[2] Pagani has been at the heart of the implementation of government privatization plan, in particular he worked on Poste Italiane[3] IPO in October 2015 and ENAV listing in July 2016.
He conceived and implemented the project "Italy is Next and Now" to attract financial institutions and human capital in Italy,[4] but in particular in Milan.[5] He has been entrusted with the coordination of the “Milan European Financial Hub” Committee.[6]
Current positions
Fabrizio Pagani is currently working in the financial sector in Italy and internationally and serves in corporate boards.
He is professor at Sciences Po, Paris, Master in International Economic Policy, where he teaches the course: "Fighting ever Bigger Monsters – Economic Policies in Times of Crisis".
He is the Founder and President of the Association M&M - Idee per un Paese migliore, a think tank which elaborates policies according to the motto: "Policies beyond Politics" [7] and chairs the advisory committee of the Bocconi PNRR Lab.[8]
He is a public speaker and contributes regularly to newspapers, TV, and social media on current affairs. He is an editorialist for Huffington Post Italia.
He is the author of several books, including OECD Steel and Shipbuilding Subsidy Negotiations.
He advises governments on global issues.
Works
Andrea de Guttry, Fabrizio Pagani, Sfida all'ordine mondiale. L'11 settembre e la risposta della comunità internazionale, Roma, 2002
Fabrizio Pagani, Most-Favoured-Nation Treatment in International Investment Law, 3–5 (OECD Working Paper No. 2004/2, Sept. 2004)
Fabrizio Pagani, Are Pluriraleral Trade Agreements Possible Outside the World Trade Organisation?, (2006) 40 Journal of World Trade, Issue 5, pp. 797 - 812