Mario Draghi – Family, Family Tree

Mario Draghi is an Italian manager, economist, and banker who preceded Jean-Claude Trichet, on 1 November 2011, as the President of the European Central Bank.

Previously he worked at Goldman Sachs for three years before becoming governor of the Bank of Italy in 2005, where he served for six years. In 2014 Forbes listed Draghi as the 8th most powerful person in the world. Fortune magazine ranked him in 2015 as the world’s 2nd greatest leader.

Early Life and Career

Mario was born in Rome on 3rd September 1947. He was brought up by an aunt and was taken under the wing of a well-known Italian economist and university professor, Federico Caffe. He studied at Massimiliano Massimo Institute.

Under the supervision of Federico Caffè, he graduated from La Sapienza University, with his dissertation named Economic integration and exchange rates changes. He joined Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a scholarship student and earned a PhD in economics in 1976.

Under the supervision of Robert Solow and Franco Modigliani, he completed his dissertation named Essays on economic theory and applications. He forged friendships with Larry Summers and celebrated German economist Rudy Dornbusch.

Parents

Carlo, his father, joined Banca d’Italia, IRI and Banca Nazionale Del Lavoro. Gilda Mancini, his mother, was a pharmacist. Both his parents prematurely died, in Mario’s mid-teens.