Domenico Siniscalco

Domenico Siniscalco    (economist, financier, politician)
Born	15 July 1954 Turin, Piemonte, Italy
Nationality	Italian
Alma mater	University of Turin, University of Cambridge
Party	Independent
Italian finance minister who jumped over to Morgan Stanley, 5 Bilderbergs  Italy/Minister of Economy and Finances In office 16 July 2004 - 22 September 2005  Italy/Director General of Treasury In office June 2001 - July 2004  Professor in political economy In office 1990 - 2006 Employer University of Turin Bilderberger

Domenico Siniscalco is an Italian politician and Minister of Economy and Finances who became Managing Director and Vice Chairman of Morgan Stanley International Limited. He attended several Bilderberg meetings, both before he became minister, during, and after.

Education

Born and raised in Turin, he studied at the Liceo classico statale Vittorio Alfieri, graduated in law at the University of Turin, and obtained a PhD in economics at the University of Cambridge.

Career

At 21 he became a collaborator of the then minister Franco Reviglio, together with Giulio Tremonti, Alberto Meomartini, Mario Baldassarri and Franco Bernabe who were then called the " Reviglio byos".

From 1990 to 2006 he was full professor of political economy at the University of Turin; he also taught at LUISS, at the University of Cagliari, at the Johns Hopkins University of Baltimore (USA) and at the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium). He headed the Eni Enrico Mattei Foundation; he was a board member of Telecom Italia.

He has written more than thirty publications on issues such as privatization, environmental economics and industrial economics in international and Italian journals. He was a columnist for Il Sole 24 Ore. From August 18, 2020 he began his collaboration with the newspaper la Repubblica as a columnist.

Appointed Director general of the treasury by the first Berlusconi government, from 16 July 2004 he became Minister of Economy and finance in the Berlusconi II government succeeding the resigning Giulio Tremonti, while maintaining the post of director general until the following spring. Confirmed to the ministry in the subsequent Berlusconi III government, however, he resigned on September 22, 2005 due to the government's failure to support his request for the resignation of the governor of the Bank of Italy Antonio Fazio, and due to differences regarding the financial choices to be implemented.

On April 24, 2006, he became managing director and vice president of Morgan Stanley International On December 1, 2007, he assumed the position of Country Head Head for Italy, again of Morgan Stanley, a position for which the Competition and Market Authority declared the incompatibility of the law to exist,. In the spring of 2010 he was a candidate for the presidency of the management board of Intesa Sanpaolo but the lack of convergence on his name led him to withdraw his candidacy.

He was president of Assogestioni, the Italian association of asset management companies.

 

Events Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Bilderberg/1998	14 May 1998	17 May 1998	Scotland Turnberry	The 46th Bilderberg meeting, held in Scotland, chaired by Peter Carrington
Bilderberg/2004	3 June 2004	6 June 2004	Italy Stresa	The 52nd such meeting. 126 recorded guests
Bilderberg/2005	5 May 2005	8 May 2005	Germany Rottach-Egern	The 53rd Bilderberg, 132 guests
Bilderberg/2007	31 May 2007	3 June 2007	Turkey Istanbul	The 55th Bilderberg meeting, held in Turkey
Bilderberg/2009	14 May 2009	17 May 2009	Greece Vouliagmeni	The 57th Bilderberg
WEF/Annual Meeting/2011	26 January 2011	30 January 2011	World Economic Forum Switzerland	2229 guests in Davos, with the theme: "Shared Norms for the New Reality".
WEF/Annual Meeting/2013	23 January 2013	27 January 2013	World Economic Forum Switzerland	2500 mostly unelected leaders met to discuss "leading through adversity"
WEF/Annual Meeting/2016	20 January 2016	23 January 2016	World Economic Forum Switzerland	Attended by over 2500 people, both leaders and followers, who were explained how the Fourth Industrial Revolution would changed everything, including being a "revolution of values".

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