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Mario Monti was born in Varese, Lombardy. He is married with two children. He holds a degree in economics and management from Bocconi University, Milan. He completed graduate studies at Yale University, where he studied with James Tobin, the Nobel prize-winning economist.
He taught economics at the University of Turin (1970-85) before moving to the Bocconi University of Milan, of which he has been rector (1989-1994) and then president (since 1994). His researches have conducted to the Klein-Monti model, aimed at describing the behaviour of banks operating under monopoly circumstances.
In 1994 he was appointed to the European Commission, along with fellow-Italian, Emma Bonino, by the first Silvio Berlusconi government. In his capacity as European Commissioner from 1995, he was responsible for “Internal Market, Financial Services and Financial Integration, Customs, and Taxation”.
Four years later, in 1999, Massimo D’Alema’s government confirmed his appointment to the new European Commission under the presidency of Romano Prodi. Thereafter he was responsible for “Competition”, in which capacity he initiated anti-monopoly proceedings against Microsoft. He also led the investigation into the proposed merger between General Electric and Honeywell in 2001, which the European Commission blocked.
The second Berlusconi government did not confirm him in 2004, and proposed Rocco Buttiglione in his place. Since Rocco Buttiglione was rejected by the European Parliament, the government proposed Franco Frattini.
Mario Monti is the President of the Bocconi University of Milan and the first chairman of Bruegel, a European think tank founded in 2005.
He is also European Chairman of the Trilateral Commission, a neoliberal think tank founded in 1973 by David Rockefeller and member of the Bilderberg Group .
In 2010, upon charge of president Barroso, Monti published a Report on the future of the Single Market, proposing further measure towards the completion of the EU single market
On 15 September 2010 Monti supported the new initiative Spinelli Group, which was founded to reinvigorate the strive for federalisation of the European Union (EU). Other prominent supporters are: Jacques Delors, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Guy Verhofstadt, Andrew Duff, Elmar Brok.
On 2 September 2011 Monti shuns the issue of an interim technical leadership for Italy in the next weeks.

On 7 November 2011, I would like Monti to be the new Italian Prime Minister. Both Italian and European economies want him.

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