Ignazio Visco is Deputy Director General and Member of the Governing Board of the Bank of Italy. He is also G7 and G20 Central Bank Deputy, Chairman of the ESCB International Relations Committee, and an alternate member of the BIS Board of Directors. He has been at the Bank of Italy since 1974, and was the Head of the Research Department from 1990 to 1997 and the Managing Director for International Affairs and for Economic Research between March 2004 and December 2006. Between 1997 and 2002 he was the Chief Economist and Head of the Economics Department of the OECD in Paris.