He was born on 28 February 1963 in Rome, where he graduated in Economics in 1986 from the Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali (LUISS), with honours and a recommendation for the publication of his dissertation on economic and financial policy.
After doing some research work, he was hired by the Bank of Italy in August 1988 at the Milan branch, where he carried out on- and offsite supervision activities.
In 1993, he was assigned to the Banking and Financial Supervision Area at the Bank's head office in Rome, in the Banking Supervision Directorate, where he worked in: the offsite supervision of the main banks in the system; crisis management for southern Italian banking groups, the impacts on the financial system of the crisis of some industrial groups and the consolidation and restructuring of the Italian banking industry. He took part in the European integration process, helping to draw up the framework for cooperation with the other European Union supervisory authorities. In this regard, he represented the Bank of Italy in international working groups at the European Central Bank, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, the European Banking Authority and the European Commission.
From 2005 to 2009, he was Acting Head of the Banking Groups Division I, where he coordinated supervisory activities at Italy's leading banks. In the same period, he reorganized and coordinated the work of the supervisory college of a prominent banking group with a significant international footprint, in which EU and non-EU supervisory authorities participate.
From 2010 to 2013, he was Head of the Banking Groups Division V, in charge of supervising subsidiaries of foreign banks and branches of foreign credit institutions in Italy, and medium-sized national banks.
In 2014, he was a member of a project team set up in the Bank of Italy to coordinate the Comprehensive Assessment exercise for significant banks and coordinated the National Quality Assurance and Technical Assistance Team. In the same year, he became Head of the Banking Groups Division IV in the Banking Supervision 1 Directorate, and also took on the role of national coordinator for three of the top Joint Supervisory Teams for European banks with a significant market presence in Italy.
In 2015, he was entrusted with the task of supporting the Head and the Acting Head of the Directorate in their managerial role of coordinating processes and divisions.
In 2018, he was appointed Deputy Head of the Banking Supervision 1 Directorate.
He has chaired selection committees for hiring graduates in the Bank of Italy and represents the Bank in its relations with the institutions and in international committees and working groups. Given his work interests, he has collaborated in drawing up supervisory guidelines, taken part in projects for international technical cooperation, and set up training and external communication schemes, speaking at seminars and conferences.
He has been Head of the Banking Supervision 1 Directorate since 25 October 2021.
