Marco Magnani
Marco Magnani (born 26 May 1969) is an Italian economist. Biography. Education and career. At 16 he was an AFS scholar, lived for a year in the United States and gained a US High School diploma. He has a degree in Economics at the University of Rome La Sapienza and at the College of Cavalieri del Lavoro in Rome. He is a Jona scholar and gained a Master in Business Administration and Finance at Columbia University. He also completed executives programs in leadership e public policies at the Harvard Kennedy School, at the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs  di Yale University and at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy of Singapore He has nearly 20 years of professional experience, primarily in "investment banking" in New York City with "JP Morgan" and in Milan with Mediobanca. He is a member of the "Global Agenda Council on Banking and Capital Markets". Since 2011 he has led the research project "Italy 2030" at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, as a "Senior Research Fellow" in political economy. He is affiliated with the School of Advanced International Studies of the Johns Hopkins University in Washington, DC . He currently teaches Monetary and Financial Economics at University LUISS Guido Carli Political Science), he is Professor of Practice at LUISS Business School and he is non resident fellow at IAI-International Affairs Institute In 2010 he was appointed Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum of Davos. In 2011 he was elected Chairman of Intercultura, the Italian partner of American Field Service. He is an elected member of the Board of Trustees of American Field Service International Programs. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Center for American Studies, of the Scientific Committee of  Fondazione Unipolis, of the Advisory Board of WelfareIndexPMI(initiative of Generali and Confindustria), of the Advisory Committee of Confindustria Piccola Industria, of the Stakeholder Advisory Board of / Edison, and several Board of Directors as an independent director. He is a member of several think-tanks: Aspen Institute, Chatham House, IAI - International Affairs Institute, Young Leaders of the Council on Relations for the US and Italy, The Economic Club of New York Magnani has a column (Letters from Cambridge, Massachusetts) on Italian financial newspaper IlSole24Ore and writes for AffarInternazionali and other newspapers, magazines and websites.