ARTICLE (Influent People of the European Union.)

Hello! We are EUnited Team, and today we are talking about important and influent people inside the European Union. Maybe you have heard about some of them before, but lets beggin with Mario Draghi, an italian economist and president of the European Central Bank.

He was  born the 3 of september of 1947, in Italia (he actually has 68 years).

In 1970, he graduated in Economics from the University of La Sapienza. Later, he continued his studies at the Massachusetts Institue of Technology. Years later, from 1974 and 1978 he was an assistant in the University of Trento, the University of Padua and the University of Venice.

In 1991 he was named General Director of the Treasury, he held this position until 2001. Between 1991 and 2001 he was Chairman of Privatization. During this period, Italy had serious corruption scandals. He became in favour of privatization as a permanent solution.                                                                                          

Between January 2002 and January 2006 he was vice president for Europe, and in the 29^th of December of 2005 he was named governor of the Bank of Italy, but he leave the position six years later to occupy the presicence of the European Central Bank. 

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Main source: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Draghi

By: Silvia Martínez.