Andrea Mele

He was born in Rome on 22 December 1960 and graduated with honours in 1985 in Statistical and Actuarial Sciences from the University of Rome 'La Sapienza'. In 1986, he qualified to practise as an actuary and joined Banca d'Italia in the same year, where he began working in Human Resources. In this area, he pursued a multifaceted career, first as a professional and later in managerial roles, studying remuneration and social security across key national and international sectors, as well as performance-based incentive and welfare systems. He has designed and implemented numerous innovations in the Bank's compensation system - most notably including the 1996 salary reform - and contributed to the design and implementation of the 2016 career reform. He has developed several IT procedures that automated a range of work processes, along with a microsimulation model used to forecast staffing and long-term personnel costs.

In 1988, he was awarded a scholarship for insurance studies by Alleanza Assicurazioni. In 1992-1993, he spent time at the University of Chicago, where he studied dynamic programming with Professor Lucas, time series analysis with Professor Tiao, and classical and Bayesian econometrics with Professors Zellner and Kwan.

He contributed to the development of the model used to calculate the annual accounts' provision for severance pay and pensions of Banca d'Italia staff hired before April 1993. Until 2017, he coordinated the working group that designed the actuarial model for the supplementary pension fund for staff hired after that date. He has participated in Eurosystem task forces on remuneration and social security, as well as in academic and institutional meetings and roundtables on pension-related matters.

In 2017, he became Deputy Head of the Planning and Control Directorate, where he coordinated three lines of action under the Bank's 2017-19 Strategic Plan, aimed at enhancing cost control - including through forward-looking measures - and improving the Bank's efficiency. The tools developed through this work are still in use today to support decision-making in other areas as well, such as proposals for organizational reforms.

He has headed the Planning and Control Directorate since 2022, where he is leading the integration of internal information and planning systems - above all between strategic and financial planning - as well as the simplification, streamlining, and automation of the Directorate's processes. He has also overseen the design and implementation of digital tools made available to other Bank functions, including: a room booking system created in 2020 in response to the pandemic, a tool for tracking time spent on different activities, one for calculating the carbon footprint of business trips, and another for monitoring overtime.