Interview with Alfonso Iozzo, senior executive in the Sanpaolo banking group from 1961 to 2006, Chairman of Cassa Depositi e Prestiti in Rome from 2006 to 2008, member of the European Federalist Movement since 1963 and Vice-Chairman of the Triffin International Foundation, carried out by the Centre Virtuel de la Connaissance sur l’Europe (CVCE) on 16 October 2012 at the residence of the Luxembourg Ambassador to Italy in Rome. The interview was conducted by Renaud Dehousse, Professor and holder of the Jean Monnet Chair in European Union Law and Political Science at Sciences Po Paris and Director of the European Studies Centre, and particularly focuses on the following aspects of Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa’s life: his activities at the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs (1979–1983), his influence within the Italian delegation that took part in the negotiations on Economic and Monetary Union and his work as Minister for the Economy and Finance (2006–2008).