8 March of 1954 was born March 8, 1954 Fabrizio Barca in Turin, the son of Economist Luciano boat, already partisan, elected official and Communist Party Italian Senator and Director of the "unity". Fabrizio graduated in statistics and Demography at Rome, before obtaining a doctorate in economics at the University of Cambridge. In 1983 he published "Considerations on the calculation of business income under uncertainty", and two years later, along with Marco Magnani, "new forms of collection in the Italian industry". Become, then, an economist, with particular expertise in territorial development policies, teaches corporate finance, economic policy and economic history at several universities: the Bocconi in Milan but also in Modena, Siena, Paris, Urbino, Parma and Rome. Gives the prints, in 1993, "allocation and reallocation of ownership and control of companies: obstacles, intermediaries, rules": in his many essays deals with small and medium-sized enterprises, business theory, history of capitalism, corporate governance and regional policies, as in "On corporate governance in Italy: issue, facts and agenda", and "Enterprises looking for master: ownership and control in Italian capitalism" , both published in 1996. After curing a "history of Italian capitalism: from the post-war period to today" to CDE in 1998, the year after Fabrizio Barca was appointed Grand Officer of the order of merit of the Italian Republic; in 2005 obtained an honorary doctorate from the University of Parma in political economy, by virtue of his merits acquired as part of the interpretation and analysis of the country's economic development and the evolution of the productive apparatus, and for the contribution in the creation of the operating system and institutional framework of territorial development policies. In 2006, author of "federalism, equity, development: results of public policies analysed and measured by territorial public accounts", published by Il Mulino, Boat is a visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (more commonly known as Mit) in Boston with research assignments, and at Stanford University. After writing for David "Italy braking: paradoxes and lessons of development policy", Fabrizio Barca is President of the Committee of territorial policies of the OECD (Organization for economic cooperation and development), and the European Commission draws up "An agenda for a reformed cohesion policy", independent report on cohesion policy. Former head of the Research Division of Bank of Italy and, at the Treasury, head of Department of development policies, having been Director General of the Ministry of economy and Finance shall be appointed, on November 16, 2011, Minister without portfolio, responsible for territorial cohesion to the Executive of Mario Monti. His experience at the Ministry lasted until 2013, since the general elections of February 24-25 are not enough to provide a stable majority for a new Government. In April, Fabrizio Barca announces his adherence to the Democratic Party, given the difficulties of party Secretary Pier Luigi Bersani: increasingly insistent voices give as papabile candidate for the succession of the same Bersani.
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