Fabrizio Barca,

Fabrizio Barca,
General Director for Development Ministry of Economy and Finance, Italy

Fabrizio Barca is General Director at the Italian Ministry of Economy. He has previously been at the Bank of Italy as Division Chief at the Research Department, Chief of the Department of Development Policies at the Italian Treasury and President of the OECD Territorial Policies Committee. He graduated from Rome University and undertook an M.Phil. degree and research activity at the Universities of Cambridge (1978-80), MIT (1989-90), and Stanford (1994). He had appointments at the Universities of Bocconi, Siena, Modena, Rome and Parma, where he taught economic development, corporate finance and Italian economic history. His works include papers and books on the theory of the firm, evidence on SMEs, corporate governance, the history of Italian capitalism and regional policy.

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