Speaker

Elsa FORNERO

Former Minister of Labour, Social Policies and Gender Equality - Italy

 Elsa Fornero is Full Professor of Economics at the University of Turin, Scientific Coordinator of CeRP – Center for Research on Pensions and Welfare Policies (http://www.cerp.carloalberto.org), Honorary Senior Fellow of the Collegio Carlo Alberto, http://www.carloalberto.org/, Member of the Board of Directors of Cintia (Centro interuniversitario Netspar Italy); she is also Vice-President of Share-Eric (Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe, http://www.share-project.org/), Research fellow of Netspar (http://www.netspar.nl/) and Policy fellow of the  Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA, http://www.iza.org/), Bonn; she is a member of the Scientific Council of the Observatoire de l’Epargne Européenne, Paris (http://www.oee.fr/), of the Advisory Group of New Pact for Europe (Brussels) and of the Research Committee of the OECD International Network on financial Education (INFE,  http://www.oecd.org/finance/financial-education/).

She served as Minister of Labor, Social Policies and Equal Opportunities in Italy’s “technocratic” government (16 November 2011- 28 April 2013) and in this capacity conceived and drafted the pension reform and labor market reform that, by altering the medium and long term structure of Italian public finance and labor market, were fundamental to the subsequent lifting of the EU excessive deficit procedure against Italy and to a process of long term rebalancing of economic relationships between generations, from the middle aged to the younger ones.

She is the author of many publications about public and private pension systems, pension reforms, population aging, household saving, retiring choices and life insurance.

Homepage:http://www.personalweb.unito.it/elsa.fornero/home.html