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Valeria Sannucci

Born in Rome, 19 April 1953.

Member of the Governing Board and Deputy Director General of the Bank of Italy from 10 May 2013; as such, also member of the joint Governing Board of the Insurance Supervisory Authority (IVASS).

Valeria Sannucci joined the Bank of Italy in 1977, assigned to the Foreign Exchange Unit of the Milan regional branch. In 1979 she moved to the Head Office in Rome, in the Research Department, first with the international and then with the monetary sector, where she headed the Financial Accounts Office.

From 1986 to 1992 she was part of the Historical Research Office, contributing to the works published in 1993 for the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Bank of Italy.

In 1996 she joined the Personnel Management Department and then, from 2006 to 2012, she was Head of that Department. During this period she worked on the organizational reform of the Bank and was a member of the Human Resources Conference (which groups the heads of personnel of the ESCB central banks) as well as a number of collegial bodies for human resources management within the Bank.

In December 2012 she was named Managing Director responsible for coordinating the activities related to the Bank's participation in the Eurosystem, including the Banking Union project.

Ms Sannucci graduated from the University of Rome "La Sapienza" in 1976 with a degree in business and economics. She was awarded the Banca Nazionale del Lavoro's Arturo Osio fellowship and took an M.A. in Economics from Columbia University in New York.

She is the author of numerous publications, including:

"La costruzione dei dati", in I bilanci delle aziende di credito 1890-1936, Collana storica della Banca d'Italia (Rome: Laterza, 1996)

"Finanza ed economia: considerazioni di metodo" (with Pierluigi Ciocca), in Il progresso economico dell'Italia (Bologna: Il Mulino, 1994)

"The Establishment of a Central Bank: Italy in the Nineteenth Century", in Currency for Europe (London: Lothian Foundation Press, 1991)

"Molteplicità delle banche di emissione: ragioni economiche ed effetti sull'efficacia del controllo monetario (1860-1890)", in Ricerche per la storia della Banca d'Italia, Vol. I (Rome: Laterza, 1990)

"Nota sulla ricerca storica della Banca d'Italia" (with Franco Cotula), Rivista di storia economica, Vol. 6, No. 3, 1989

"L'andamento dei profitti bancari rispetto al ciclo economico", Bancaria, No. 11, 1983

"Le nuove procedure operative di controllo monetario negli Stati Uniti (1979-81)", (with Stefano Micossi), Giornale degli economisti e annali di economia, No. 2, 1982