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Franco Passacantando

Position
Scientific advisor
Biography

Franco Passacantando is scientific advisor at IAI, senior fellow at the LUISS School of European Political Economy in Rome, and board member in some Italian and international private companies. He held several positions at the Bank of Italy, including that of Head of the Monetary Sector of the Research Department and of Managing Director in charge of relations with international institutions. From 1995 to 2013 he was Executive Director at the World Bank and from 2013 to 2018 Expert Member of the Board of the European Investment Bank.
He has a degree in Statistics from La Sapienza University of Rome and a Master of Arts in Economics from Stanford University.

Publications

Data pubblicazione

Building a Competitive European Market for Stablecoins

Building a Competitive European Market for Stablecoins
Autori
Franco Passacantando
Details
Rome, IAI, July 2026, 15 p.
In: IAI Papers 26|12
Data pubblicazione

Cracks in the Global Monetary Architecture

Autori
Christophe Diederen
Franco Passacantando
Details
Rome, IAI, June 2025, 19 p.
In: IAI Papers 25|08
Data pubblicazione

The “Weaponisation” of Money: Risks of Global Financial Fragmentation

Autori
Jennifer Johnson-Calari
Arnab Das
Franco Passacantando
Details
Rome, IAI, June 2024, 16 p.
In: IAI Papers 24|20

In the media

Mirage.News: 3rd G20 Infrastructure Working Group meeting focused on local, digital and green infrastructure

Research

This project – which the IAI conducts in collaboration with Intesa Sanpaolo – aims at analyzing the challenges of “geofinance”, studying the main developments and changes in the global economy and…
The project, which started in January 2020 and ended in July 2021, culminated in the publication of the collected volume “The (Near) Future of CBDCs: Risks and Opportunities for the Global Economy…