Massimo Pariotti

Massimo Pariotti

High-level advisor to the Director General

Massimo Pariotti was born in Milan in 1961. In 1988, after graduating in Business and Economics from 'La Sapienza' University in Rome, he was hired by IBM, where he worked for about four years in business consulting, with a focus on the development of IT solutions for corporate finance.

In 1992, he joined Banca d'Italia as a Director and was assigned to the Financial Intermediaries Supervision Directorate. In 2004, he became Head of the Financial Market Oversight Division, which was responsible for supervising the supply of financial products in Italy by domestic and foreign operators. In this role, he gained extensive knowledge of financial innovation processes and contributed to drafting a large number of primary and secondary regulations aimed at aligning Italian law with the European framework and the rules in place in major international financial markets.

In 2008, he was appointed Head of the Securities Investment Firms Division, which was responsible for the microprudential supervision of Italian investment firms and groups, at a time when the Basel II supervisory framework was first applied to the sector and the EU's MiFID I Directive came into force. In 2016, he took the helm of the Asset Management and Investment Services Division, which was also in charge of controls on investment fund management companies operating in financial and real estate markets.

In 2019, he was assigned to the Directorate General for Property and Tenders and served in the Property Directorate, where he was involved in the process of divesting the premises formerly used as Bank branches, as well as overseeing facility management services. In 2020, he was appointed Deputy Head of the Services and Logistics Directorate, of which he became Head in 2024. In 2026, he joined the Directorate General for Property and Tenders, where he currently serves as Senior Executive.

Throughout his extensive career at Banca d'Italia, he has liaised with many Italian and foreign institutions and authorities, and represented the Bank as a speaker at various conferences. He has authored publications on financial products and markets, served on internal committees and in numerous working groups, and chaired staff recruitment panels.