Marcello Minenna
Marcello Minenna is Head of Quants at Consob and Academic Fellow at Bocconi University. He is Director of the Italian Customs and Monopolies Agency. He worked out pioneering results in the field of quantitative methods applied to the surveillance of financial markets focused on insider trading analysis, market abuse detection and risk disclosure of structured products through synthetic indicators. In several public consultations these indicators have received the support of distinguished members of the international academia. For his work he has been cited as Quant Enforcer and Quant Regulator by Risk magazine. Minenna is one of the European  economists that propose a radical change of ECB policy, from an inflation target to an interest rate target, in order to achieve a substantial levelling of the real interest rates among the Eurozone countries (the "zero spread" strategy). This would imply also the use of unconventional monetary measures, up to a partial debt monetization by the ECB. This idea had some resonance in the national press and abroad. He has been selected as finance chief in the council of Virginia Raggi in Rome. He resigned on the 31st of August 2016, together with other four senior city officials. Marcello Minenna