Vincenzo Visco

Not to be confused with Ignazio Visco.

Vincenzo Visco
Visco in 2013
Minister of Finance
In office 29 April 1993 – 4 May 1993
Prime Minister	Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
Preceded by	Franco Reviglio
Succeeded by	Franco Gallo
In office 18 May 1996 – 26 April 2000
Prime Minister	Romano Prodi Massimo D'Alema
Preceded by	Augusto Fantozzi
Succeeded by	Ottaviano Del Turco
Minister of Treasury, Budget and Economic Planning
In office 25 April 2000 – 10 June 2001
Prime Minister	Giuliano Amato
Preceded by	Giuliano Amato
Succeeded by	Giulio Tremonti (Economy and Finance)
Member of the Senate of the Republic
In office 23 April 1992 – 14 April 1994
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
In office 12 July 1983 – 23 April 1992
In office 14 April 1994 – 28 April 2008
Personal details
Born	(1942-03-18)18 March 1942 Foggia, Kingdom of Italy
Political party	PDS (1991-1998) DS (1998–2007) PD (2007–2017) Art1 (2017–2023)
Alma mater	Sapienza University of Rome
Profession	University professor

Vincenzo Alfonso Visco (Italian pronunciation: [vinˈtʃɛntso ˈvisko]; born 18 March 1942) is an Italian politician and economist who has served as a government minister.

Biography

Visco gained an MSc in Economics at the University of York in 1969 and was awarded an honorary degree in 2004.

Visco was elected to the Italian Parliament in 1983 for the Sinistra Indipendente group, joining the Democratic Party of the Left in 1991, the Democrats of the Left in 1998 and the Democratic Party in 2007. He served as Italian Minister of Finance for a few days in 1993 and then again from 1996 to 2000 and Treasury Minister from 2000 to 2001. He returned to government in 2006 as Vice-Minister of Economy, a role in which he courted controversy. He was accused of using his political influence to benefit Unipol in a bank takeover, although he was cleared of any illegal activity. He also hit the headlines in this role when he described the country's debt as "a disaster". One of his final acts in this role was to publish the tax details of every Italian citizen for 2005 in a move he described as 'an act of transparency, of democracy, similar to what happens elsewhere in the world'.