Biagio Bossone is chairman of The Group of Lecce, and member of the Centre d’Études pour le Financement du Développement Local. He has been Accountant General, Director General of Budget and Treasury, and interim Director General of Credit and Finance, Region of Sicily; Coordinator of the Evaluation Unit of Public Investments at Italy’s Presidency of the Council of Ministers; President of the Central Bank of the Republic of San Marino; Executive Director of the World Bank Group; and member of the IMF Executive Board.