Gian Maria Gros-Pietro

Gian Maria Gros-Pietro

Gian Maria Gros-Pietro (Turin, 4 February 1942) is an Italian manager, chairman of the Management Board of Intesa Sanpaolo since 9 May 2013, and member of the Board of Directors at Luiss Guido Carli University of Rome.

Gros-Pietro graduated in Economics and Business at University of Turin, in 1964, where he also taught Business Economics and Industrial Economics and Politics until 2004. During this time, more precisely between 1974 and 1995, he directed Ceris (Institute for Economics Research on Firms and Growth, main economic body of the National Research Council – CNR), while for 7 years starting in 2004 he was appointed Chairman of the Economic and Business department at LUISS University in Rome.

From 1997 to 1999 he was Chairman of IRI - Institute for Industrial Reconstruction, leading the privatization of its subsidiaries. He was in charge of similar responsibilities both at Eni from 1999 to 2002, supervising the liberalization of the Italian gas market as well as the group’s expansion, and at Atlantia S.p.A (formerly Austostrade S.p.A) from 2002 to 2010.

For 6 years, until 2002, Gros-Pietro was member of CNEL (National Council for Economy and Labour). Since then, he presides over the Scientific Committee of Nomisma, a company focused on economic studies, and he is part of the Executive Committee of ISPI (Institute for International Political Studies), of ABI’s Executive Committee, of FeBAF’s Executive Board (Italian Banking, Insurance and Finance Federation) and of the Employers’ Association of Turin.

Furthermore, he is part of the Board of Directors of ASTM (acting as Chairman) and Edison.