On Friday 22 February, the president of the ECB, Mario Draghi, will receive an honorary degree in law from the University of Bologna.
“The proposal to confer an Honorary Degree in Law on Mario Draghi is based on the recognition of the role played on the one hand in defending the principles and values of the European Union Treaties and on the other in promoting the legal framework of a Union banking institution attentive to the protection of the public interest and savers”, reads the note from UniBo.
The list of titles by Mario Draghi is therefore getting longer. An economist, academic, banker and public manager, Draghi graduated in economics from the Sapienza University of Rome, and then specialized at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, in the United States.
Since 1975 he has been a university professor at the universities of Trento, Padua, Venice and Florence. In 1991 he was appointed director general of the Ministry of the Treasury; on 29 December 2005 he became the ninth governor of the Bank of Italy, and in 2006 he served as resident of the Financial Stability Board until 2011. In 2011 he succeeded Jean-Claude Trichet as President of the European Central Bank and since June 2013 he has been president of the Group of Governors and Chief Supervisors (GHOS) at the Bank for International Settlements.
