In this interview excerpt, Jacques de Larosière, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) from 1978 to 1987, Governor of the Banque de France from 1987 to 1993 and President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) from 1993 to 1998, describes the opportunities he had to work with Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, who was a member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank from 1998 to 2005 and Italian Minister for the Economy and Finance from 2006 to 2008, and particularly refers to their exchanges during the preparations for the Report on financial supervision in the European Union (the ‘De Larosière Report’), published in March 2009.

In this interview excerpt, Jacques de Larosière, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) from 1978 to 1987, Governor of the Banque de France from 1987 to 1993 and President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) from 1993 to 1998, discusses the personality of Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, who was a member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank from 1998 to 2005 and Italian Minister for the Economy and Finance from 2006 to 2008.

In this interview excerpt, Jacques de Larosière, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) from 1978 to 1987, Governor of the Banque de France from 1987 to 1993 and President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) from 1993 to 1998, describes Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa’s activities at the Italian Ministry of the Economy and Finance from 2006 to 2008.

In this interview excerpt, Jacques de Larosière, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) from 1978 to 1987, Governor of the Banque de France from 1987 to 1993 and President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) from 1993 to 1998, describes Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa’s European commitment, particularly when he was co-rapporteur for the Delors Committee (the Committee for the Study of Economic and Monetary Union set up after the Hanover European Council) from 1988 to 1989, then a member of the first Executive Board of the European Central Bank from 1998 to 2005.