Massimo Pariotti was born in Milan in 1961 and graduated in Economics from 'La Sapienza' University in Rome. In 1988 he joined IBM and spent four years working as a business consultant, specializing in the development of IT solutions for corporate finance.
In 1992, he began his career within the Bank of Italy as part of the Financial Intermediaries Supervision Department. In 2004, he was appointed Head of the division responsible for overseeing the provision of financial services by domestic and foreign operators. Through this experience, he gained a keen understanding of financial innovation dynamics and was able to contribute to draft regulations designed to bring the Italian legal framework in step with those of the chief international financial centres, as well as of the EU.
In 2008, he was appointed Head of the Investment Firms Division, conducting micro-prudential supervision of firms and Italian investment groups in the early stages of the Basel II supervisory framework and of the new EU regulations for the financial instruments market (MiFID I). In 2016, he became Head of the Asset Management Companies Division, which monitors the development of new investment products in the financial and real estate markets.
In 2019, he moved to the Directorate General for Property and Tenders as part of the management team of the Property Directorate, overseeing the sale of the Bank's former branches and facility management operations. In 2020, he was appointed Deputy Head of the newly instituted Services and Logistics Directorate and was promoted to Head of the Directorate in 2024.
Over the course of his extensive career, Massimo Pariotti has liaised on the Bank's behalf with a significant range of institutions and authorities both national and international, also speaking at conferences on several subjects and authoring publications on financial markets and products. He has also been a member of internal committees and working groups, and has chaired selection boards for the recruitment of new staff.
