Franco Brun is President of ISPI and Co-Head of the Observatory on Europe and Global Governance. He is Emeritus Professor at the Department of Economics of Bocconi University, where he was Full Professor of International Monetary Theory and Policy and Member of the University’s Board of Directors. He studied at Bocconi University and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. At Bocconi, he is a Fellow of the Institute for European Policymaking. He is an Honorary Member of the Société Universitaire Européenne de Recherches Financières (Suerf), which he chaired until 2000. He is the Italian Member of the European Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee. He was Vice President of the UniCredit & Universities Foundation. In the context of the Italian G20, he chaired for several years the T20 task force on international financial architecture.