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'''Fabrizio Barca''' (born 8 March 1954) is an Italian senior civil servant and politician, who served as a state minister without portfolio for territorial cohesion in [[Monti Cabinet|the Monti cabinet]] from 2011 to 2013.<ref name=spo>{{cite web|title=Barca, Fabrizio|url=http://www.mpa.sciences-po.fr/index.php?id=48&tx_obladympateam_pi1%5BshowUid%5D=18&cHash=8a772d3fb76402bb46742e1f8a12165a|work=Sciences Po.|access-date=8 September 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111028104456/http://www.mpa.sciences-po.fr/index.php?id=48&tx_obladympateam_pi1%5BshowUid%5D=18&cHash=8a772d3fb76402bb46742e1f8a12165a |archive-date=28 October 2011|df=dmy}}</ref><ref name=irish>{{cite news|last=Agnew|first=Paddy|title=Monti sworn in as Italy's PM to wave of domestic and external approval|url=http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2011/1117/1224307704646.html|accessdate=14 September 2012|newspaper=Irish Times|date=17 November 2011|location=Rome}}</ref>
'''Fabrizio Barca''' (born 8 March 1954) is an Italian senior civil servant and politician, who served as a state minister without portfolio for territorial cohesion in the [[Monti government]] from 2011 to 2013.<ref name=spo>{{cite web|title=Barca, Fabrizio|url=http://www.mpa.sciences-po.fr/index.php?id=48&tx_obladympateam_pi1%5BshowUid%5D=18&cHash=8a772d3fb76402bb46742e1f8a12165a|work=Sciences Po.|access-date=8 September 2012
|url-status=dead|archive-date=28 October 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111028104456/http://www.mpa.sciences-po.fr/index.php?id=48&tx_obladympateam_pi1%5BshowUid%5D=18&cHash=8a772d3fb76402bb46742e1f8a12165a}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|author=Paddy Agnew|title=Monti sworn in as Italy's PM to wave of domestic and external approval|url=http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2011/1117/1224307704646.html
|access-date=14 September 2012|newspaper=[[The Irish Times]]|date=17 November 2011|location=Rome}}</ref>


==Early life and education==
==Early life and education==
Barca was born in [[Turin]],<ref name=biog>{{cite web|title=Biografia di Fabrizio Barca|publisher=Governo Italiano|access-date=14 September 2012
Barca was born in [[Turin]],<ref>{{cite web|title=Biografia di Fabrizio Barca |url=http://www.governo.it/Governo/Biografie/ministri/Barca_fabrizio.html|publisher=Governo Italiano|access-date=14 September 2012|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120711063748/http://www.governo.it/Governo/Biografie/ministri/Barca_fabrizio.html |archive-date=11 July 2012 |df=dmy}}</ref> the son of a senior member of the old [[Italian Communist Party|Italian Communist Party (PCI)]].<ref name=lgdm12apr/> He is a graduate of [[La Sapienza University of Rome]].<ref name=ec>{{cite web|title=CV Fabrizio Barca |url=http://ec.europa.eu/civil_service/docs/directors_general/2010/barca-cv_en.pdf |publisher=European Council |accessdate=8 September 2012 }}{{dead link|date=December 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> Barca obtained a [[MPhil]] in economics from [[King's College, Cambridge]] in 1979.<ref name=BallingHennessy1998>{{cite book|author1=Morten Balling|author2=Elizabeth Hennessy|author3=Richard O'Brien|title=Corporate Governance, Financial Markets and Global Convergence|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tx8MnM0LIOcC&pg=PA16|accessdate=6 June 2013|year=1998|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-0-7923-4825-2|pages=16}}</ref> He also carried out research activities at [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)]] from 1989 to 1990 and at [[Stanford University]] in 1994.<ref name=ec/>
|url=http://www.governo.it/Governo/Biografie/ministri/Barca_fabrizio.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=11 July 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120711063748/http://www.governo.it/Governo/Biografie/ministri/Barca_fabrizio.html}}</ref> the son of a senior member of the old [[Italian Communist Party|Italian Communist Party (PCI)]].<ref name=lgdm12apr/> He is a graduate of [[La Sapienza University of Rome]].<ref name=biog/> Barca obtained a [[MPhil]] in economics from [[King's College, Cambridge]] in 1979.<ref name=bh1998>{{cite book
|author1=Morten Balling|author2=Elizabeth Hennessy|author3=Richard O'Brien|title=Corporate Governance, Financial Markets and Global Convergence
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tx8MnM0LIOcC&pg=PA16|year=1998|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-0-7923-4825-2|page=16}}</ref> He also carried out research activities at [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)]] from 1989 to 1990 and at [[Stanford University]] in 1994.<ref name=biog/>


==Career==
==Career==
Barca is a lecturer in corporate finance and Italian economy history.<ref name=bbc1116>{{cite news|title=Q&A: Monti's technocratic government for Italy|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-15762791|accessdate=9 September 2012|work=BBC|date=16 November 2011}}</ref> He worked as a lecturer at the universities of [[Bocconi University|Bocconi]], [[University of Modena and Reggio Emilia|Modena]], Paris (SPO), [[Siena, University of|Siena]], [[University of Rome Tor Vergata|Rome]] and [[University of Parma|Parma]].<ref name=whoit>{{cite news|title=The Who's Who of the Monti Government|url=http://www.i-italy.org/18683/whos-who-monti-goverment|accessdate=7 September 2013|work=i-Italy|date=16 November 2011|author=Francesca Giuliani}}</ref> Barca often taught economic development, corporate finance and Italian economic history at these universities.<ref name=oecd>{{cite web|title=Speaker Biographies|url=http://www.oecd.org/site/govrdpc/37524757.pdf|publisher=OECD|accessdate=8 September 2012}}</ref> He carried out an interesting study on the [[Mezzogiorno]].<ref name=econo>{{cite news|last=Manasse|first=Paolo|title=The Bocconi University Coup|url=http://www.economonitor.com/blog/2011/11/the-bocconi-university-coup/|accessdate=8 September 2012|work=EconoMonitor|date=17 November 2011}}</ref>
Barca is a lecturer in corporate finance and Italian economy history.<ref>{{cite news|title=Q&A: Monti's technocratic government for Italy
|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-15762791|accessdate=9 September 2012|work=BBC|date=16 November 2011}}</ref> He worked as a lecturer at the universities of [[Bocconi University|Bocconi]], [[University of Modena and Reggio Emilia|Modena]], Paris (SPO), [[Siena, University of|Siena]], [[University of Rome Tor Vergata|Rome]] and [[University of Parma|Parma]].<ref name=whoit>{{cite news|title=The Who's Who of the Monti Government|url=http://www.i-italy.org/18683/whos-who-monti-goverment|accessdate=7 September 2013|work=i-Italy|date=16 November 2011
|author=Francesca Giuliani|archive-date=16 March 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140316181731/http://www.i-italy.org/18683/whos-who-monti-goverment|url-status=dead}}</ref> Barca often taught economic development, corporate finance and Italian economic history at these universities.<ref name=oecd>{{cite web|title=Speaker Biographies|url=http://www.oecd.org/site/govrdpc/37524757.pdf|publisher=OECD|accessdate=8 September 2012}}</ref> He carried out an interesting study on the [[Mezzogiorno]].<ref name=econo>{{cite news|author=Paolo Manasse|title=The Bocconi University Coup|url=http://www.economonitor.com/blog/2011/11/the-bocconi-university-coup/|accessdate=8 September 2012|work=EconoMonitor
|date=17 November 2011}}</ref>


Barca's public posts included the division chief at the research department of [[Banca d'Italia|the Bank of Italy]],<ref name=BallingHennessy1998/> chief of the department of development and cohesion policies at the treasury<ref name=eumadrid>{{cite web|last=Arnaud|first=Jean-Louis|title=15 countries in a boat|url=http://www.notre-europe.eu/uploads/tx_publication/Semi5-en.pdf|publisher=European Union|access-date=8 September 2012|location=Madrid|format=Report|date=27–28 November 1998|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120307012546/http://www.notre-europe.eu/uploads/tx_publication/Semi5-en.pdf|archive-date=7 March 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> and the president of [[OECD]]'s territorial policies committee (1999).<ref name=spo/><ref name=ec/> During his tenure at the Italian treasury, he worked with [[Carlo Azeglio Ciampi]], then treasure minister.<ref name=Italychro>{{cite news|last=Roe|first=Alex|title=March of the Technocrats: Italy's Mario Monti's Ministers|url=http://italychronicles.com/march-technocrats-italys-mario-montis-ministers/|accessdate=8 September 2012|work=Italy Chronicles|date=17 November 2011}}</ref> In fact, Ciampi appointed Barca to this position.<ref name="Pasquino2000">{{cite book|author=Gianfranco Pasquino|title=Italian Politics: The Faltering Transition|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K4jlaPUP1MAC&pg=PA191|accessdate=9 September 2012|date=1 December 2000|publisher=Berghahn Books|isbn=978-1-57181-840-9|page=191}}</ref> The reason for his appointment was his being part of young leading Italian economists in the 1990s and his reputation which he had gained during his tenure at the Bank of Italy.<ref name=Pasquino2000/>
Barca's public posts included the division chief at the research department of the [[Banca d'Italia|Bank of Italy]],<ref name=bh1998/> chief of the department of development and cohesion policies at the treasury<ref>{{cite web|author=Jean-Louis Arnaud|title=15 countries in a boat
|url=http://www.notre-europe.eu/uploads/tx_publication/Semi5-en.pdf|publisher=European Union|access-date=8 September 2012|location=Madrid
|format=Report|date=27–28 November 1998|archive-date=7 March 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120307012546/http://www.notre-europe.eu/uploads/tx_publication/Semi5-en.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> and the president of [[OECD]]'s territorial policies committee (1999).<ref name=spo/> During his tenure at the Italian treasury, he worked with [[Carlo Azeglio Ciampi]], then treasure minister.<ref>{{cite news
|author=Alex Roe|title=March of the Technocrats: Italy's Mario Monti's Ministers|url=http://italychronicles.com/march-technocrats-italys-mario-montis-ministers/|access-date=8 September 2012|work=Italy Chronicles|date=17 November 2011}}</ref> In fact, Ciampi appointed Barca to this position.<ref name="Pasquino2000">{{cite book|author=Gianfranco Pasquino|title=Italian Politics: The Faltering Transition|publisher=Berghahn Books|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K4jlaPUP1MAC&pg=PA191|year=2000|isbn=978-1-57181-840-9|page=191}}</ref> The reason for his appointment was his being part of young leading Italian economists in the 1990s and his reputation which he had gained during his tenure at the Bank of Italy.<ref name=Pasquino2000/>


He worked as a special advisor to the European Union commissioner responsible for regional policy.<ref name=mrr>{{cite web |title=The biographical notes of Moderators and Panelists |url=http://www.mrr.gov.pl/konferencje/eic2011/eng/Strony/Speakers.aspx |publisher=MRR |access-date=8 September 2012 |date=24–25 October 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111023063917/http://www.mrr.gov.pl/konferencje/eic2011/eng/Strony/Speakers.aspx |archive-date=23 October 2011 |df=dmy }}</ref> In April 2009, he developed an independent report for [[the European Commission]], entitled ''[http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2009_2014/documents/regi/dv/barca_report_/barca_report_en.pdf An agenda for a reformed cohesion policy]''.<ref name=ec/> In addition, Barca was the director of the department of development policies in [[Ministry of Economy and Finance (Italy)|the ministry of economy and finance]] until his appointment as minister in 2011.<ref name=whoit/><ref name=burson>{{cite web|title=New Italian Government |url=http://www.policyperiscope.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/New-Italian-Government-November-2011.pdf |publisher=Burson-Marsteller |access-date=8 September 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304060215/http://www.policyperiscope.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/New-Italian-Government-November-2011.pdf |archive-date=4 March 2016 |df=dmy }}</ref>
Barca worked as a special advisor to the European Union commissioner responsible for regional policy.<ref name=mrr>{{cite web|title=The biographical notes of Moderators and Panelists|url=http://www.mrr.gov.pl/konferencje/eic2011/eng/Strony/Speakers.aspx|publisher=MRR|access-date=8 September 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111023063917/http://www.mrr.gov.pl/konferencje/eic2011/eng/Strony/Speakers.aspx |archive-date=23 October 2011|date=24–25 October 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> In April 2009, he developed an independent report for [[the European Commission]], entitled ''An agenda for a reformed cohesion policy''. In addition, Barca was the director of the department of development policies in the [[Ministry of Economy and Finance (Italy)|Ministry of Economy and Finance]] until his appointment as minister in 2011.<ref name=whoit/><ref>{{cite web|title=New Italian Government|url=http://www.policyperiscope.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/New-Italian-Government-November-2011.pdf|publisher=Burson-Marsteller|access-date=8 September 2012|archive-date=4 March 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304060215/http://www.policyperiscope.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/New-Italian-Government-November-2011.pdf}}</ref>


On 16 November 2011, he was appointed minister of territorial cohesion to [[Monti Cabinet|the cabinet]] led by prime minister [[Mario Monti]].<ref name=spo/><ref>{{cite news|title=Knoxville Photos|url=http://www.knoxnews.com/photos/2011/nov/16/167571/|accessdate=8 September 2012|work=Knox News|date=16 November 2011}}</ref> In July 2012, Barca endorsed and launched a new website that was Italy's first national web portal concerning the implementation of investments covering the period of 2007-2013 by regions and state central administrations along with cohesion policy resources. All data therein were published as [[open data]], which makes it Italy's largest open data project.<ref>{{cite web|title=OPENCOESIONE English home page|url=http://www.opencoesione.gov.it/progetto/en/|publisher=Dipartimento per lo sviluppo e la coesione economica|accessdate=19 November 2014}}</ref> Barca's tenure ended on 28 April 2013, and he was succeeded by [[Carlo Trigilia]] in the post.<ref>{{cite news|title=Italy's new cabinet lineup|url=http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-04/28/c_132347926.htm|accessdate=29 April 2013|newspaper=Xinhua|date=28 April 2013|location=Rome}}</ref> Just before leaving office, Barca joined [[Democratic Party (Italy)|the Democratic Party]] in April 2013.<ref name=lgdm12apr>{{cite news|title=Minister unveils blueprint for PD renewal |url=http://www.lagazzettadelmezzogiorno.it/notizia.php?IDNotizia=610463&IDCategoria=2694 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130702160930/http://www.lagazzettadelmezzogiorno.it/notizia.php?IDNotizia=610463&IDCategoria=2694 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2 July 2013 |access-date=12 May 2013 |newspaper=La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno |date=12 April 2013 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Pd/ Barca: Mi sono iscritto, è quello il luogo dove costruire|url=http://www.tmnews.it/web/sezioni/news/PN_20130411_00240.shtml|work=TM News|access-date=5 June 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130416045736/http://www.tmnews.it/web/sezioni/news/PN_20130411_00240.shtml|archive-date=16 April 2013|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref>
On 16 November 2011, Barca was appointed minister of territorial cohesion to the cabinet led by Prime Minister [[Mario Monti]].<ref name=spo/><ref>{{cite news|title=Knoxville Photos|url=http://www.knoxnews.com/photos/2011/nov/16/167571/|access-date=8 September 2012|work=Knox News
|date=16 November 2011}}</ref> In July 2012, Barca endorsed and launched a new website that was Italy's first national web portal concerning the implementation of investments covering the period of 2007-2013 by regions and state central administrations along with cohesion policy resources. All data therein were published as [[open data]], which makes it Italy's largest open data project.<ref>{{cite web|title=Opencoesione English home page|url=http://www.opencoesione.gov.it/progetto/en/|publisher=Dipartimento per lo sviluppo e la coesione economica|access-date=19 November 2014}}</ref> Barca's tenure ended on 28 April 2013, and he was succeeded by [[Carlo Trigilia]] in the post.<ref>{{cite news|title=Italy's new cabinet lineup|url=http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-04/28/c_132347926.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=2 May 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130502192426/http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-04/28/c_132347926.htm|access-date=29 April 2013
|newspaper=Xinhua|date=28 April 2013|location=Rome}}</ref> Just before leaving office, Barca joined the [[Democratic Party (Italy)|Democratic Party]] in April 2013.<ref name=lgdm12apr>{{cite news|title=Minister unveils blueprint for PD renewal|newspaper=[[La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno]] |url=http://www.lagazzettadelmezzogiorno.it/notizia.php?IDNotizia=610463&IDCategoria=2694|archive-date=2 July 2013|access-date=12 May 2013
|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130702160930/http://www.lagazzettadelmezzogiorno.it/notizia.php?IDNotizia=610463&IDCategoria=2694|url-status=dead|date=12 April 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Pd/ Barca: Mi sono iscritto, è quello il luogo dove costruire|access-date=5 June 2013|url=http://www.tmnews.it/web/sezioni/news/PN_20130411_00240.shtml|work=TM News|archive-date=16 April 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130416045736/http://www.tmnews.it/web/sezioni/news/PN_20130411_00240.shtml}}</ref>

Since 2018, Barca has been coordinator of the Forum Disuguaglianze e Diversità, a civil society organisation aimed at designing public policies and collective actions in order to reduce inequalities and enhance everyone's substantive freedom. <ref>{{cite web|title=Forum Disuguaglianze Diversità|date=14 February 2018|url=https://www.forumdisuguaglianzediversita.org/our-project/|accessdate=4 November 2021|language=it}}</ref>


==Work==
==Work==
In 2014 Barca published his memoir in which he described the party he desired.<ref>{{cite news|author=Lilia Giugni|title=The Italian left at a crossroads: Where now for the PD?|url=http://www.policy-network.net/pno_detail.aspx?ID=4721&title=The-Italian-left-at-a-crossroads-Where-now-for-the-PD|accessdate=21 November 2014|work=Policy Network|date=27 August 2014}}</ref>
In 2014, Barca published his memoir in which he described the party he desired.<ref>{{cite news|author=Lilia Giugni|title=The Italian left at a crossroads: Where now for the PD?|url=http://www.policy-network.net/pno_detail.aspx?ID=4721&title=The-Italian-left-at-a-crossroads-Where-now-for-the-PD|access-date=21 November 2014|work=Policy Network|date=27 August 2014}}</ref>


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Fabrizio Barca
Minister for Territorial Cohesion
In office
16 November 2011 – 28 April 2013
Prime MinisterMario Monti
Preceded byRaffaele Fitto
Succeeded byCarlo Trigilia
Personal details
Born (1954-03-08) 8 March 1954 (age 70)
Turin
NationalityItalian
Political partyPD (since 2013)
Alma mater

Fabrizio Barca (born 8 March 1954) is an Italian senior civil servant and politician, who served as a state minister without portfolio for territorial cohesion in the Monti government from 2011 to 2013.[1][2]

Early life and education

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Barca was born in Turin,[3] the son of a senior member of the old Italian Communist Party (PCI).[4] He is a graduate of La Sapienza University of Rome.[3] Barca obtained a MPhil in economics from King's College, Cambridge in 1979.[5] He also carried out research activities at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1989 to 1990 and at Stanford University in 1994.[3]

Career

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Barca is a lecturer in corporate finance and Italian economy history.[6] He worked as a lecturer at the universities of Bocconi, Modena, Paris (SPO), Siena, Rome and Parma.[7] Barca often taught economic development, corporate finance and Italian economic history at these universities.[8] He carried out an interesting study on the Mezzogiorno.[9]

Barca's public posts included the division chief at the research department of the Bank of Italy,[5] chief of the department of development and cohesion policies at the treasury[10] and the president of OECD's territorial policies committee (1999).[1] During his tenure at the Italian treasury, he worked with Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, then treasure minister.[11] In fact, Ciampi appointed Barca to this position.[12] The reason for his appointment was his being part of young leading Italian economists in the 1990s and his reputation which he had gained during his tenure at the Bank of Italy.[12]

Barca worked as a special advisor to the European Union commissioner responsible for regional policy.[13] In April 2009, he developed an independent report for the European Commission, entitled An agenda for a reformed cohesion policy. In addition, Barca was the director of the department of development policies in the Ministry of Economy and Finance until his appointment as minister in 2011.[7][14]

On 16 November 2011, Barca was appointed minister of territorial cohesion to the cabinet led by Prime Minister Mario Monti.[1][15] In July 2012, Barca endorsed and launched a new website that was Italy's first national web portal concerning the implementation of investments covering the period of 2007-2013 by regions and state central administrations along with cohesion policy resources. All data therein were published as open data, which makes it Italy's largest open data project.[16] Barca's tenure ended on 28 April 2013, and he was succeeded by Carlo Trigilia in the post.[17] Just before leaving office, Barca joined the Democratic Party in April 2013.[4][18]

Since 2018, Barca has been coordinator of the Forum Disuguaglianze e Diversità, a civil society organisation aimed at designing public policies and collective actions in order to reduce inequalities and enhance everyone's substantive freedom. [19]

Work

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In 2014, Barca published his memoir in which he described the party he desired.[20]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Barca, Fabrizio". Sciences Po. Archived from the original on 28 October 2011. Retrieved 8 September 2012.
  2. ^ Paddy Agnew (17 November 2011). "Monti sworn in as Italy's PM to wave of domestic and external approval". The Irish Times. Rome. Retrieved 14 September 2012.
  3. ^ a b c "Biografia di Fabrizio Barca". Governo Italiano. Archived from the original on 11 July 2012. Retrieved 14 September 2012.
  4. ^ a b "Minister unveils blueprint for PD renewal". La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno. 12 April 2013. Archived from the original on 2 July 2013. Retrieved 12 May 2013.
  5. ^ a b Morten Balling; Elizabeth Hennessy; Richard O'Brien (1998). Corporate Governance, Financial Markets and Global Convergence. Springer. p. 16. ISBN 978-0-7923-4825-2.
  6. ^ "Q&A: Monti's technocratic government for Italy". BBC. 16 November 2011. Retrieved 9 September 2012.
  7. ^ a b Francesca Giuliani (16 November 2011). "The Who's Who of the Monti Government". i-Italy. Archived from the original on 16 March 2014. Retrieved 7 September 2013.
  8. ^ "Speaker Biographies" (PDF). OECD. Retrieved 8 September 2012.
  9. ^ Paolo Manasse (17 November 2011). "The Bocconi University Coup". EconoMonitor. Retrieved 8 September 2012.
  10. ^ Jean-Louis Arnaud (27–28 November 1998). "15 countries in a boat" (PDF). Madrid: European Union. Archived from the original (Report) on 7 March 2012. Retrieved 8 September 2012.
  11. ^ Alex Roe (17 November 2011). "March of the Technocrats: Italy's Mario Monti's Ministers". Italy Chronicles. Retrieved 8 September 2012.
  12. ^ a b Gianfranco Pasquino (2000). Italian Politics: The Faltering Transition. Berghahn Books. p. 191. ISBN 978-1-57181-840-9.
  13. ^ "The biographical notes of Moderators and Panelists". MRR. 24–25 October 2011. Archived from the original on 23 October 2011. Retrieved 8 September 2012.
  14. ^ "New Italian Government" (PDF). Burson-Marsteller. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 8 September 2012.
  15. ^ "Knoxville Photos". Knox News. 16 November 2011. Retrieved 8 September 2012.
  16. ^ "Opencoesione English home page". Dipartimento per lo sviluppo e la coesione economica. Retrieved 19 November 2014.
  17. ^ "Italy's new cabinet lineup". Xinhua. Rome. 28 April 2013. Archived from the original on 2 May 2013. Retrieved 29 April 2013.
  18. ^ "Pd/ Barca: Mi sono iscritto, è quello il luogo dove costruire". TM News. Archived from the original on 16 April 2013. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
  19. ^ "Forum Disuguaglianze Diversità" (in Italian). 14 February 2018. Retrieved 4 November 2021.
  20. ^ Lilia Giugni (27 August 2014). "The Italian left at a crossroads: Where now for the PD?". Policy Network. Retrieved 21 November 2014.
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Political offices
Preceded by
Raffaele Fitto
 Minister for Territorial Cohesion
2011 – 2013 		Succeeded by
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