Paolo Savona is the founder of the first chair of Geopolitical economics. He was trained at the Research Department of the Bank of Italy, is a professor emeritus of Economic Policy and an author of numerous writings on real, monetary, and financial economics. He is currently the chairman of Consob (the authority responsible for regulating Italian financial markets). He has twice served as a minister in the Italian government.
Rainer S. Masera is the Dean of the Faculty of Economics and a professor of Economic Policy at the Guglielmo Marconi University of Rome, Italy. He serves as the minister of the budget and economic planning in the Italian government. He has published numerous monographic works and essays on the subject of financial innovation, risk control, and economic policy, in Italian and foreign magazines.
