In this interview excerpt, Fabrizio Saccomanni, Head of the Foreign Department at the Bank of Italy from 1984 to 1997 and Managing Director for International Affairs at the Bank of Italy from 1997 to 2003, Vice President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) from 2003 to 2006, a Member of the Governing Board and Senior Deputy Governor of the Bank of Italy from 2006 to 2013 and Italian Minister for Economic Affairs and Finance from 2013 to 2014, discusses his family background.

In this interview excerpt, Fabrizio Saccomanni, Head of the Foreign Department at the Bank of Italy from 1984 to 1997 and Managing Director for International Affairs at the Bank of Italy from 1997 to 2003, Vice President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) from 2003 to 2006, a Member of the Governing Board and Senior Deputy Governor of the Bank of Italy from 2006 to 2013 and Italian Minister for Economic Affairs and Finance from 2013 to 2014, discusses his economics studies at Bocconi University in Milan and Princeton University in the United States, particularly describing how the European integration process was perceived in the 1960s in US intellectual and university circles.