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Mario Draghi

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Mario Draghi (Italian: [ˈmaːrjo ˈdraːɡi]; born 3 September 1947) is an Italian politician, economist, academic, banker, statesman, and civil servant, who served as the prime minister of Italy from 13 February 2021 to 22 October 2022. Prior to his appointment as prime minister, he served as the president of the European Central Bank (ECB) between 2011 and 2019. Draghi was also the chair of the Financial Stability Board between 2009 and 2011, and governor of the Bank of Italy between 2006 and 2011. After a lengthy career as an academic economist in Italy, Draghi worked for the World Bank in Washington, D.C., throughout the 1980s, and in 1991 returned to Rome to become director general of the Italian Treasury. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mario Draghi is the 14th most popular economist (up from 20th in 2019), the 404th most popular biography from Italy (up from 483rd in 2019) and the most popular Italian Economist.

Mario Draghi is the president of the European Central Bank. He is most famous for his speech on July 26, 2012, in which he promised to do "whatever it takes" to save the euro.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Mario Draghi ranks 14 out of 414Before him are Friedrich Hayek, Frédéric Passy, Vilfredo Pareto, Milton Friedman, François Quesnay, and Joseph Schumpeter. After him are George Shultz, Alfred Marshall, John Law, Ludwig von Mises, W. Arthur Lewis, and Klaus Schwab.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Mario Draghi ranks 18Before him are Dilma Rousseff, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Brian May, Mary Simon, O. J. Simpson, and James Hunt. After him are Shirin Ebadi, Anwar Ibrahim, Paul Auster, Mohammad Najibullah, Carlos Santana, and Iggy Pop.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Mario Draghi ranks 404 out of 5,161Before him are Gaius Octavius (-100), Pope Sergius I (650), Filippo Lippi (1406), Guido Reni (1575), Nero Claudius Drusus (-38), and Antonio da Correggio (1489). After him are Pope Theodore II (840), Yves Montand (1921), Pope Celestine II (1100), Pope Nicholas IV (1227), Enrico Dandolo (1107), and Ludovico Ariosto (1474).

Among ECONOMISTS In Italy

Among economists born in Italy, Mario Draghi ranks 1After him are Franco Modigliani (1918), Carlo M. Cipolla (1922), Piero Sraffa (1898), Giovanni Arrighi (1937), Ferdinando Galiani (1728), Gian Domenico Romagnosi (1761), Pietro Verri (1728), Mariana Mazzucato (1968), Pier Carlo Padoan (1950), Daniele Archibugi (1958), and Alberto Alesina (1957).