Matteo Bugamelli

Matteo Bugamelli

Head of the Secretariat to the Governing Board Directorate

Mr. Bugamelli joined Banca d'Italia in 1997 in the Directorate General for Economics and Statistics, where he later led the Trade and Emerging Markets Division and the Economic Structure and Labor Market Division.

From November 2020 to October 2026, he was Executive Director in the Board of Directors of the World Bank Group, representing Albania, Greece, Italy, Malta, Portugal, San Marino, and Timor-Leste. He was also the Chairman of the Executive Board's Budget Committee (2020-22), the Chairman of the Executive Board's Audit Committee (2022-23) and the Dean of the Executive Board (2023-26).

Mr. Bugamelli graduated in Economics from University of Bologna in 1991 and earned his Ph.D. in Economics at Columbia University in New York (US).

He has been visiting scholar in the Department of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley; and has authored and co-authored several articles on International Trade, Productivity and Firms, International Migrations and Remittances, publishing in journals like the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking and the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.

He is Head of the Secretariat to the Governing Board Directorate since November 2026.