Mario Monti

Senator for life Mario Monti OMRI
Monti in 2012
Prime Minister of Italy
In office 16 November 2011 – 28 April 2013
President	Giorgio Napolitano
Preceded by	Silvio Berlusconi
Succeeded by	Enrico Letta
Minister of Economy and Finance
In office 16 November 2011 – 11 July 2012
Prime Minister	Himself
Preceded by	Giulio Tremonti
Succeeded by	Vittorio Grilli
European Commissioner for Competition
In office 15 September 1999 – 30 October 2004
President	Romano Prodi
Preceded by	Karel Van Miert
Succeeded by	Neelie Kroes
European Commissioner for Internal Market, Services, Customs and Taxation
In office 18 January 1995 – 15 September 1999
President	Jacques Santer
Preceded by	Raniero Vanni d'Archirafi
Succeeded by	Frits Bolkestein
President of Bocconi University
In office 6 September 1994 – 1 November 2022
Preceded by	Giovanni Spadolini
Succeeded by	Andrea Sironi
Member of the Senate of the Republic
Incumbent
Life tenure 9 November 2011
Appointed by	Giorgio Napolitano
Personal details
Born	(1943-03-19) 19 March 1943 (age 81) Varese, Lombardy, Kingdom of Italy
Political party	Independent (1995–2013; since 2015) Civic Choice (2013–2015)
Spouse	Elsa Antonioli ​ (m. 1970)​
Children	2
Alma mater	Bocconi University Yale University
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Mario Monti OMRI (born 19 March 1943) is an Italian economist and academic who served as the Prime Minister of Italy from 2011 to 2013, leading a technocratic government in the wake of the Italian debt crisis.

Monti served as a European Commissioner from 1995 to 2004, with responsibility for the Internal Market, Services, Customs and Taxation from 1995 to 1999 and for Competition from 1999 to 2004. Monti has also been rector and president of Bocconi University in Milan for many years.

On 12 November 2011, in the midst of the European sovereign debt crisis, Monti was invited by President Giorgio Napolitano to form a new technocratic government following the resignation of Silvio Berlusconi. Monti was sworn in as prime minister on 16 November 2011, just a week after having been appointed a Lifetime Senator by President Napolitano, and initially became Minister of Economy and Finances as well, giving that portfolio up the following July.

From 16 May 2013 to 17 October 2013, Monti was the president of Civic Choice, a centrist^[1] political party in Italy.