Transcription of the interview with Christian Noyer, Vice-President of the European Central Bank from 1998 to 2002 and Governor of the Banque de France since 2003, carried out by the Centre Virtuel de la Connaissance sur l’Europe (CVCE) on 27 September 2012 in Paris. Conducted by François Lafond, Managing Director of EuropaNova, the interview particularly focuses on the following aspects of the life of Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa: his personality, his activities on the ECB Executive Board (1998–2005) and his work as Minister for the Economy and Finance (2006–2008).