He was born in Frascati (Rome) on 7 July 1960 and is married to Marina. They have two children, Federico and Margherita.

He graduated with honours in 1984 in Statistical and Demographic Sciences from the Sapienza University in Rome. He was exempted from military service and joined the Bank of Italy in 1986, where he was assigned to the Applications Development Division in the Processing and IT Directorate.

Over the years he has promoted and coordinated numerous initiatives for renewing the Bank’s accounting applications and systems, and he was in charge of the project for using the euro as a reporting currency and of adopting the ECSB Guidelines for the Bank’s balance sheet, starting from 1 January 1999.

He was then the IT manager for all the work on the switch to the single currency for the Bank’s application platforms, which culminated in the changeover to the euro starting from 1 January 2002.

In 2003, he became Head of the Internal Applications Division, a position he continued to hold in 2009, following the reorganization of the Bank’s IT area, where he was assigned to the IT Innovation and Development Department.

During those years he was the driving force behind the renewal of the Bank’s expenditure, budgeting and personnel management systems, using an application management platform that was integrated with the Bank’s accounting reporting and balance sheet systems; at the same time, he set up projects to completely dematerialize the formal communication processes.

In January 2014, he was appointed Acting Head of the IT Operations Directorate; in June of the same year, he was appointed Acting Head of the IT Planning Directorate.

He has been Head of the IT Planning Directorate since 31 January 2020.