Mario Monti | |
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 Monti in 2012 | |
| Prime Minister of Italy | |
| In office 16 November 2011 – 28 April 2013 | |
| President | Giorgio Napolitano |
| Preceded by | Silvio Berlusconi |
| Succeeded by | Enrico Letta |
| Minister of Economy and Finance | |
| In office 16 November 2011 – 11 July 2012 | |
| Prime Minister | Himself |
| Preceded by | Giulio Tremonti |
| Succeeded by | Vittorio Grilli |
| European Commissioner for Competition | |
| In office 15 September 1999 – 30 October 2004 | |
| President | Romano Prodi |
| Preceded by | Karel Van Miert |
| Succeeded by | Neelie Kroes |
| European Commissioner for Internal Market, Services, Customs and Taxation | |
| In office 18 January 1995 – 15 September 1999 | |
| President | Jacques Santer |
| Preceded by | Raniero Vanni d'Archirafi |
| Succeeded by | Frits Bolkestein |
| President of Bocconi University | |
| In office 6 September 1994 – 1 November 2022 | |
| Preceded by | Giovanni Spadolini |
| Succeeded by | Andrea Sironi |
| Member of the Senate of the Republic | |
| Life tenure 9 November 2011 | |
| Appointed by | Giorgio Napolitano |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 19 March 1943 Varese, Lombardy, Kingdom of Italy |
| Political party | Independent (1995–2013; since 2015) Civic Choice (2013–2015) |
| Spouse |
Elsa Antonioli (m. 1970) |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater | Bocconi University Yale University |
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Mario Monti OMRI (born 19 March 1943) is an Italian politician, economist and academic who served as the Prime Minister of Italy from 2011 to 2013, leading a technocratic government in the wake of the Italian debt crisis.
Monti served as a European Commissioner from 1995 to 2004, with responsibility for the Internal Market, Services, Customs and Taxation from 1995 to 1999 and for Competition from 1999 to 2004. Monti has also been rector and president of Bocconi University in Milan for many years.
On 12 November 2011, in the midst of the European sovereign debt crisis, Monti was invited by President Giorgio Napolitano to form a new technocratic government following the resignation of Silvio Berlusconi. Monti was sworn in as prime minister on 16 November 2011, just a week after having been appointed a Lifetime Senator by President Napolitano, and initially became Minister of Economy and Finances as well, giving that portfolio up the following July.
From 16 May 2013 to 17 October 2013, Monti was the president of Civic Choice, a centrist[1] political party in Italy.
- ^ Wolfram Nordsieck. "Parties and Elections in Europe". parties-and-elections.eu.