Mario Monti

Mario Monti (born March 19, 1943, Varese, Italy) is an Italian economist, academic, and bureaucrat who served as prime minister of Italy (2011–13). Monti, the son of a banker, studied economics and management at Bocconi University in Milan and received a degree in 1965. He then pursued graduate studies at Yale University under the tutelage of American economist James Tobin. Monti taught briefly at the University of Trento (1969–70) and began a post at the...