Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, former president of the Jacques Delors Institute (2005-2010), was a convinced and far-seeing European with strong expertise in economic and financial issues. He played a key role in advancing the argument for a common currency as the author of the report on “Efficiency, Stability and Equity” (1987) and in designing the architecture of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) as co-rapporteur of the Jacques Delors committee on EMU (1989).
After his sudden death in December 2010, Jacques Delors Institute decided to honour his contribution to the creation of the euro area with the establishment of a high-level expert group to reflect on the reform of the European and Monetary Union. Working under the patronage of Jacques Delors and Helmut Schmidt, the Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa group met several times from December 2011 until May 2012.
The members of the Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa group are:
Henrik Enderlein – General coordinator, Research Associate at the Jacques Delors Institute and Associate Dean at the Hertie School of Governance
Peter Bofinger, Member of the German Council of Economic Experts
Laurence Boone, Chief economist at Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Paul de Grauwe Professor of economics at the London School of Economics
Jean-Claude Piris, Former Director General of the Legal service of the Council of the EU
Jean Pisani-Ferry, Director of Bruegel, Professor of Economics at Paris-Dauphine and member of the Jacques Delors Institute’s board of directors
Maria João Rodrigues, Former Minister for Employment and member of the Jacques Delors Institute’s board of directors
André Sapir,Professor of Economics at Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and senior fellow at Bruegel
António Vitorino, President of the Jacques Delors Institute and former European Commissioner for Justice and Internal Affairs
The members of the steering committee:
Yves Bertoncini, Secretary-general of the Jacques Delors Institute
Sofia Fernandes, Researcher in economic and social affairs at the Jacques Delors Institute
Marc-Antoine Lacroix, Director of Promontory Financial Group France
Eulalia Rubio, Senior researcher at the Jacques Delors Institute in economic and social affairs, European budget
