Gianluca graduated in Political Economy, with honors, at Sapienza University of Rome in 2009. He is currently advisor in currency circulation management division of the Currency Circulation Management Directorate. He has been working at Banca d’Italia since 2010 in the cash management concerning requirements estimation and monitoring. As member of ECBs Banknotes Requirements Expert Group, he is in charge of reviewing the draft production requirements as well as the medium-term outlook for the requirements for the following three years.

Crises are the new normal. They seem to occur at ever shorter intervals and are intensified by various factors, e.g. globalization.

More than ever, central banks need to be prepared for crises. But how should this be done? What measures make sense, what concessions should be made, and what are the costs of protecting against crises.

These questions will be debated in this panel discussion.