Marco Fantini

After completing his studies in international economics at Bocconi University in Milan, where he also worked at the Institute for Stock Exchange Studies, Mr Fantini was recruited by Barclays Bank, industrial credit department. In 1994, he joined the European Commission, Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs, where he was responsible for the economic analysis of Germany (1994-1999) and subsequently of Russia, Moldova and Belarus (1999-2004). Since2005, he has been working on EU tax policy at the Directorate-General for Taxation and Customs, where he is Head of the sector dealing with quantitative analysis. Mr. Fantini has published a book on the interplay of national strategies, alliances and interests within the EU and papers on the Russian economy, on EU-Russia relations and on EU relations with neighboring countries (the EU Neighborhood Policy). He has taught courses on EU policy at various Moscow universities. Mr Fantini’s course at Yale is titled “the European Union’s contemporary challenges” and covers all the EU’s most important policies. It will run until the end of December 2008.