sentences:  In addition to being a professor at Bocconi University in Milan, he is a Research Fellow and a Trustee of Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), a member of the Strategic Committee of Agence France Trésor, and of the Group of Economic Policy Advisers to the President of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso.During 2004 he was the Houblon-Norman Fellow at the Bank of England.During the D'Alema government (1998–2000) he was a member of the Council of Economic Advisers to the Italian prime minister.