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Emerico Antonio Zautzik

Born in Genoa on 11 December 1951. He graduated in Political Science from the University of Rome in 1975 and joined the Forlì branch of the Bank of Italy the following year, when he also won a Giorgio Mortara scholarship to study for an MA Business Administration, with specialization in Finance, at the University of Rochester.
In 1979 he moved to the Economic Research Department at the Bank’s Head Office in Rome, becoming head of the Monetary Analysis Office in 1985 and of the Statistics Sector in 1990. In 1999 he was appointed deputy head of the Monetary and Exchange Rate Policy Department, which he took over in 2004. Four years later he was nominated head of the newly established Central Banking Department.
He has represented the Bank on numerous OECD, BIS and EU working parties and on IMF assistance missions. From 1993 to 1995 he was Deputy Chairman of the Eurostat Committee for Monetary, Financial and Balance of Payments Statistics. From 1997 to1999 he was Chairman of the Irving Fisher Committee, a forum of central bank statisticians associated with the International Statistical Institute.
He has been a member of the European Central Bank’s Market Operations Committee since 1998 and of the BIS Markets Committee since 2004. He has written numerous essays on money and finance.
On 1 March 2012 he was appointed Managing Director responsible for Central Banking, Markets and Payment Systems.