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Marino Ottavio Perassi (General Counsel)

Born in Piossasco (Turin) in 1960. He graduated in Law from the University of Turin in 1984 and began his professional career in private practice and as research assistant at the Law Faculty. He qualified to practice law in 1986.

He joined the Bank of Italy in 1989, working in the Legal Department.
He has represented the Bank in numerous working groups of the European Monetary Institute, the European Commission and the G10 and is currently a member of the Legal Committee of the ESCB (LEGCO).

He is the author of various publications on commercial law, banking law and payment systems, and co-author, with V. Calandara Buonaura and C. Silvetti, of La banca: l’impresa e i contratti (Padua 2011).
He is a member of the editorial board of the quarterly Rivista di Diritto Societario.

He has lectured in banking and financial law at the University of Florence.

He has taught in the post-graduate programme on Global Regulation of Markets at La Sapienza University of Rome.

From 2006 to 2011 he was Head of the Bank’s Legal Services Department.

Since July 2011 he has been the Bank’s General Counsel.