Giuseppe Bruno

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Position

Director of IT support for economics and statistics

Biography

Giuseppe Bruno is head of Division in the Economics and statistics Department at the Bank of Italy. In his career, he worked with experts from the Washington Federal Reserve's Division of Research and Statistics. In 2000, after a short period at the statistical Division of OECD, he was appointed Head of the Economic Research Department's IT unit. In 2016, he assumed responsibility for coordinating a multidisciplinary team on Big Data, comprising economists, statisticians, computer scientists from various department. One of the team’s goal was to build a HW/SW infrastructure capable to deal with different kinds of Big Data related to macroeconomic and microeconomic issues. Since 2023, he has been co-leading a team on the experimentation of AI within Economic Research Department. Between February and March of 2022, he has been visiting the Institute of Quantum Computing of the University of Waterloo (ON) Canada. Over his career he has published over 30 papers in different economic and computational economics journals.