Speakers

Davide Iacovoni is the head of the directorate responsible for the management of public debt securities at the department of the treasury, within the Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance. The directorate covers all the activities related to public debt management: front, middle and back office activities related to government securities and derivatives, communication, relations with international institutions, rating agencies and local/global investors, drafting of all the official documents related to debt management, forecasts of debt and interest payments, and relations with local authorities on topics related to the general government debt. Before his current position, he spent 13 years as the head of the domestic funding division in charge of the front and middle office of all euro denominated Italian government bonds under the domestic law within the same directorate. Before that, for two years, he was the head of the division in charge of the relations with the OECD and the coverage of emerging markets assistance programmes on public debt management issues (always within the same directorate). He joined the Ministry of Economy and Finance in 1999 as an associate in the domestic funding division. He teaches public debt management at the University of Padova and he was speaker on the same topic at several academic seminars. Davide has a PhD in economics from the University of Ancona (Italy), a MA in financial economics from the University of Louvan-la-Neuve (Belgium) and a MA in economics from the Coripe consortium in Turin. Davide received his degree in economics from University of Rome, La Sapienza. He has several publications on public debt and finance both from a macro and micro perspective.”