Biagio Bossone is financial advisor to international organizations (AfDB, BIS, IMF, IOSCO, World Bank) and economic advisor to governments and financial institutions in Africa, Europe and the Middle East. He served as executive director, World Bank, member of the Executive board of the IMF, head of the public investment evaluation unit at Italy’s Presidency of the Council of Ministers, general accountant and director general of the budget, government of the Sicilian region. A fomer banker and central banker, he has participated in G10 and European central banking working groups and task forces. He has served as expert to the High-Level Commission on World Bank Reform. He has been professore of inernational finance at the University of Palermo and University of Salento, Italy. He has (co)authoreds everal studies on economics, banking and finance.