Interest in European matters: a glass three-quarters full?

About the authors

• Francesco Papadia

  Francesco Papadia is a Senior Fellow at Bruegel. He specialises in central banking, international economics and monetary policy.

  He covers the European monetary union and related issues. He also researches monetary theory, inflation, exchange rates and financial markets, as well as macroeconomic integration, economic convergence and international monetary system design.

  He speaks English, French and Italian.

  He was previously Chair of the Selection Panel of the Hellenic Financial Stability Fund (HFSF). He was, between 1998–2012, Director General for Market Operations at the European Central Bank. He worked previously at the Banca d'Italia, first as Director of the International Section of the Research Department and then as Deputy Head of the Foreign Department. He attended postgraduate studies at the Istituto Adriano Olivetti (Ancona) and the London Business School. 

• Giuseppe Porcaro

  Giuseppe Porcaro led the outreach activities of Bruegel, including communications, media, events, publications and hosted the Bruegel podcast series until October 2023. He was responsible for membership relations, supported the governance of the organisation, and was the board secretary. He also lead the Human Resources department and was part of the organisation's senior management. 

  Giuseppe's research interests lie with issues related to technological changes and how they affect policymaking and democracy, as well as to narratives about European futures and their policy implications in the current global geopolitical context.

  Giuseppe joined Bruegel in 2014, and was the head of communications and events until 2019. He has been Secretary-General of the European Youth Forum between 2009 and 2014, UN and Global Affairs coordinator at the Youth Forum from 2007 to 2009, and previously worked at the World Bank in Kosovo and Paris as well as the European Office of the World Organisation of the Scout Movement. Giuseppe holds a Ph.D. in Geography of Development at the University of Naples "L'Orientale". He is also a science-fiction writer, and author of a novel about Europe and the future of democracy.

  He is fluent in English, Italian, French, and Spanish.

   

   

   

   

   

   

• Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol

  Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol is a Non-resident Fellow at Bruegel. He specialises in international economic history, particularly the history of European economic cooperation and integration.

  He covers the European Union’s Economic and Monetary Union; the development of international and European banking regulation and supervision, especially the origins of the European banking union; European Public Goods; the rise of both global and European economic governance; the international debt crises of the 1980s, particularly in Eastern Europe; and the history of capitalism, neoliberalism and their relationship with European integration. 

  He speaks English, Italian and German.

  He is also a Professor of History of European Cooperation and Integration at the European University Institute (EUI, Florence), and Co-Director of the Alcide De Gasperi Research Centre. Previously, he was a Bruegel Visiting Fellow, a Professor at the University of Glasgow and has held visiting and research positions at institutions including the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Keio University and Columbia University. He holds a PhD in History and Civilisation from EUI, Florence.

• Enrico Bergamini

  Enrico worked at Bruegel as a research analyst.

  He is currently pursuing a PhD in Economics and Complexity at the University of Turin. He holds a BSc in Business and Economics from the University of Bologna and a MSc in Economic Policy from the University of Utrecht.

  His research interests include economics of innovation, climate change, and inequalities.

  Enrico is a native Italian speaker, is fluent in English and has a working knowledge of French.