Career
During 2004 he was the Houblon-Norman Fellow at the Bank of England. He was Director General of the Italian Treasury responsible for debt management and privatizations from 1992 to 1994. From 1991 to 1999 he was an editor of the European Economic Review.
He is also well known for his editorials in Italy"s leading daily Corriere della Sera.
He contributes to the economics web sites Voxeu.org and LaVoce.info. In 2015, Giavazzi wrote a scathing denunciation of Greeks.
His polemic was criticized by Karl Whelan, a professor of economics at University College Dublin.
