Mario Monti is an Italian economist and academic who served as the Prime Minister of Italy from 2011 to 2013, leading a technocratic government in the wake of the Italian debt crisis.
Monti in 2012
Mario Monti served as a European Commissioner from 1995 to 2004.
Monti's Cabinet swearing-in ceremony at the presence of President Napolitano.
Prime Minister Monti with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, 2012.
The prime minister of Italy, officially the president of the Council of Ministers, is the head of government of the Italian Republic. The office of president of the Council of Ministers is established by articles 92–96 of the Constitution of Italy; the president of the Council of Ministers is appointed by the president of the Republic and must have the confidence of the Parliament to stay in office.
Prime Minister of Italy
Chigi Palace in Rome, the seat of the Council of Ministers and the official residence of the Prime Minister of Italy.
Count Camillo Benso of Cavour, first Italian Prime Minister
Benito Mussolini, longest-serving prime minister of Italy and Duce of fascism