Governance

Degree in Political Science (University of Padua). MA in Business administration (University of Padua). MSc in Economics (University of York). He joined the Bank of Italy in 1979. From 1994 to 1997 he served as Economic Adviser at the European Commission. From 1997 to 2013 he was at the Bank of Italy, finally from 2011 as managing director of Economics, Research and International Relations. From 1999 to 2007 he was chairman of the Working Group on Public Finance of the European Central Bank. From 2013 to 2019 he was State General Accountant at the Ministry of Economics and Finance. He is now Member of the Governing Board and Director General of the Bank of Italy. He is also a member of the Joint Directorate of the Insurance Supervisory Authority (IVASS). He gave courses at the Universities of Bergamo and Trieste, at the Università Cattolica in Milano and at the Scuola Superiore della Pubblica Amministrazione in Rome. Among his books are The Stability and Growth Pact, 2001, Palgrave, with M. Buti and A. Brunila and Fiscal Policy in Economic and Monetary Union. Theory, Evidence and Institutions, 2005, Edward Elgar, with M. Buti.

Michele Cortelazzo is Professor Emeritus of Italian Linguistics at the University of Padua, where he goes on teaching, and Ordinary Academician of the Accademia della Crusca.
He worked at the Universities of Trieste, Venice, Ferrara and, abroad, in Saarbrücken, Innsbruck and Rijeka (Rijeka). He was Dean of the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy (2009-2011), Director of the Department of Linguistic and Literary Studies (2012-2015), Director of the Galilean School of Higher Studies (2016-2022) at the University of Padua.

A scholar of the contemporary Italian language, he has worked mainly on special languages ​​(legal-administrative, scientific, medical, political language). In this field he carries out an intense consultancy and training activity for the modernization of bureaucratic and legal language. His interests include lexicography (especially historical) and the use of quantitative tools for linguistic analysis (he has worked on author attribution, in particular with reference to the Elena Ferrante case, and is now engaged in the study of Italian produced by generative Artificial Intelligence). He is the author of over 200 scientific publications, including the volumes "Il linguaggio della politica", Rome-Florence, Gruppo Editoriale L'Espresso-Accademia della Crusca, 2016, "Il linguaggio amministrativo. Principi e pratiche di modernizzazione", Rome, Carocci, 2021 and "La lingua della neopolitica. Come parlano i leader", Rome, Treccani, 2024, for which he was awarded the Pavese Prize for non-fiction.