CURRICULUM VITAE

Giovanni Tria
PLACE AND DATE OF BIRTH Rome, 28/9/1948

NATIONALITY Italian

ADDRESS Via dei Robilant, n.11

00135 Rome

Tel.+39 06 33 56 5 249 / 293 / 324 / 325

Fax. +39 06 3331416

E-mail: g.tria@sspa.it

STUDIES AND

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

Degree in Law, University of Rome "La Sapienza", 1971

Economist with more than 35 years of professional and

academic experience as expert of economic development,

business cycle and growth, public investment assessment

and project evaluation, role of the governance of the

institutions on the growth process.

He has worked extensively on the formulation and

management of macro-econometric models for economic

forecast and the simulation of economic policies,

contributing to the periodical formulation of economic

forecast reports.

Member of the Italian Economic Society

Member of the American Economic Association

CURRENT POSITIONS

President of the Italian National School of Public

Administration
Full professor of Political Economy, Faculty of Economics, University of Rome
"Tor Vergata"

Delegate for the Italian Government on the Board of Directors of ILO

(International Labour Office)

Member of the "OECD Innovation Strategy Expert Advisory Group" and Vice
Chair “Committee for Information, Computer and Communication Policy” (ICCP)

Director of “Master of Development Economics and International Cooperation”

- MESCI - University of Rome “Tor Vergata”

Director of the Erasmus Mundus Master Program “International Cooperation

and Urban Development”, University of Rome Tor Vergata

PAST POSITIONS

2004

2002

2001

2000-1999

Expert on the High Committee for Fiscal Federalism Consultant at the Ministry
of Foreign Affairs for a feasibility study on “ Urban Rehabilitation of Plaza del
Cristo, Havana, Cuba”.

Consultant at the World Bank for technical assistance to the Ethiopian

Government on the reform of the Tertiary Education financing system.

Consultant at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Directorate General for

Development Cooperation).

2000-1998 Consultant at the World Bank for cooperation programmes

in Ethiopia and Eritrea.

1995

1987-1990

Appointed expert at the Treasury.

Member of the “Evaluation Team of Public Investments”, at the Ministry of

Budget, for the sectors of cultural heritage, university and tourism.

1986-1996 Co-author of the Econometric Model "Dismod", A quarterly multi-

sectorial model of the Italian economy and of the Forecast Report published by
Iscom- Istituto per gli studi e la documentazione sul commercio, sul turismo e sui
servizi.

1995-1996 Member of the Scientific Committee of Iscom.

PAST ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

1995 and 2002 Visiting Scholar, Department of Economics, Simon

Fraser University, (British Columbia, Canada).

1994 Visiting Scholar, Department of Economics, Birkbeck College,

University of London.

1992-1993 Professor of History of Economic Thought, Faculty of

Economics, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”.

1991-1992 Professor of Economics, Faculty of Law, University of

Perugia.

1986 Visiting Scholar, Department of Economics, Columbia University, New

York.

1984 Visiting Scholar, Department of Economics, Columbia University, New

York.

1978-79 Visiting Scholar, University of Beijing.