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Mario Baldassarri | |
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| Member of theSenate | |
| In office 28 April 2006 – 14 March 2013 | |
| Constituency | Marche |
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| Born | (1946-09-10)10 September 1946 (age 78) Macerata |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Political party | National Alliance The People of Freedom Future and Freedom |
| Alma mater | University of Ancona (master degree) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD) |
Mario Baldassarri (born 10 September 1946) is an Italian economist and politician. He was asenator[1] from 2006 to 2013.
Born inMacerata, he was the vice-minister of economy and finance inSilvio Berlusconi's second and third governments, from 2001 to 2006.
He graduated in economics in 1969 and specialized at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1977 withFranco Modigliani,Robert Solow andPaul Samuelson as speakers. At the age of 30 he obtained a university chair, teaching at theUniversity of Bologna as full professor of economics (1980–1988), and from that date full professor of political economy in the Faculty of Economics of theSapienza University of Rome. He also taught at theUniversity of Turin and theCatholic University of Milan.
In the 1980s he held the role of director ofEni for six years, and for four years that of economic advisor to EFIM (Entity for investments and financing of manufacturing industries). He was economic advisor to the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of the Budget, the Ministry of the Treasury, the Presidency of the Council of Ministers andConfindustria.
Since February 2009, Baldassarri has been the president of theConfederation of Italian Entrepreneurs Worldwide (CIIM), an organization founded in 2004 under the auspices of the Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Minister of Italians Living Abroad to create synergies between entrepreneurs in Italy and Italian businesses operating abroad.
In 2001 he ran for the Chamber of Deputies in the Macerata college: supported by theHouse of Freedoms, he obtained 43.7% of the votes and was defeated by the candidate of theOlive TreeValerio Calzolaio. In the Berlusconi II and III governments he held the position of Deputy Minister for the Economy and Finance (2001–2006).
In the 2006 general election he was elected senator with the National Alliance. In the 2008 general elections he was re-elected senator, in the ranks of the People of Freedom and held the position of president of the Finance and Treasury Commission of the Senate.
On 2 August 2010 he joined theFuture and Freedom group of which he was initially regent. In the 2013 general election he was a candidate for the Senate in the Sicilian constituency, on theWith Monti for Italy list, but he was not elected.
He has three children: Pierfrancesco, Marta and Pierluca.
