Franco Bruni

University/ Institution
Universitá ‘Luigi Bocconi’ Istituto di Economia Politica MILAN – Italy

Expertise
International monetary theory and policy, Central Banking, Financial Regulation, EMU.

Small Summary
* B.A. in Economics, Bocconi University, 1971;
* M.S. in Economics, M.I.T., Cambridge, USA, 1974.
* Professor of International Monetary Theory and Policy and Director of the Department of Economics Institute, University of Bocconi, Milan, Italy.
* President of SUERF (Societé Universitaire Européenne de Recherches Financières).
* Member of Groupeuro, a network of lecturers on EMU, speaking at the invitation of he European Commission.
* Member of the ESFRC (European Shadow Financial Regulatory Committeee).
* Master of Science in Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, U.S.A.
* Author of various publications in the area of Monetary Economics and International Finances.

Detailed Biography
* B.A. in Economics, Bocconi University, 1971; M.S. in Economics, M.I.T., Cambridge, USA, 1974. He has been Visiting Scholar and Visiting Professor at New York University, University of California at Berkeley, Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Getulio Vargas University in Sao Paulo, IEEM in Macau. He has been full professor of Economic Policy at the University of Brescia before being appointed full professor at Bocconi University (in 1990).
* He is Professor of International Monetary Theory and Policy and Director of the Department of Economics, Bocconi University, Milan, Italy.
* Member of the Founding Committee of the University of Bolzano, Italy (since 1999).
* President of SUERF (Société Universitaire Européenne de Recherches Financières)(1998-2000).
* Member of the ESFRC (European Shadow Financial Regulatory Committeee).
* Member of Groupeuro, a network of lecturers on EMU, speaking at the invitation of he European Commission.
* Scientific Director, Member of the Board of Directors and of the Executive Committee of ISPI (Institute for International Political Studies, connected to the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs), Palazzo Clerici, Milan, Italy.
* Editor, “Giornale degli Economisti e Annali di Economia” , Milan, Italy.
* Economic Consultant and coordinator of the Asset Allocation Commitee, UniCredito Italiano (a large Italian banking group), President of Gesticredit S.p.A.(the mutual fund company of the group), Member of the Board of UBM (UniCredito Banca Mobiliare, the investment bank of the group), Milan, Italy.
* Member of the Board of Directors of SAIPEM S.p.A. (a leading multinational oilfield services contractor), San Donato Milanese, Italy.

Among his recent publications:
Market Discipline of Bank Riskiness: A Study of Selected Issues (Journal of Financial Services Research, September 1995, with F.Paternò), Central Bank Independence in the European Union (in I.Kuroda ed., “Towards More Effective Monetary Policy”, Macmillan, London 1997), The Independence of the European Central Bank and its Political and Democratic Accountability (in J.-V. Louis and H.Bronkhorst eds., “The euro and European integration”, P.I.E.-Peter Lang, Brussels, 1999), The impact of SMP and EMU on the European Banking Sector: the case of Italy (in: T.Gardener, P.Molyneux, B.Moore eds., “The impact of SMP and EMU on the European banking sector”, Macmillan, London 2000, forthcoming), Lending of Last Resort and Systemic Stability in the Eurozone (in C.Goodhart ed., “The ECB and Systemic Stability in the Eurozone”, with C. de Boissieu, Central Banking Publications Ltd., 2000, forthcoming), Financial Stability, Regulation, Supervision, Crisis Management and Modern Central Banking (in A.Santomero et al. eds, “Challenges for Modern Central Banking”, Kluwer, 2000, forthcoming), Foreword in M.Weber ed., “After the Asian Crises”, Macmillan, London 2000.