Biagio Bossone is a senior advisor to international organizations and central banks on macro-financial policy, payment systems, and financial sector development. He is currently a Visiting Scholar at the IMF, Scientific Advisor to the Fast Forward Foundation (EU), and a Founding Core Team Member of the Special Interest Group on Fintech & Digital Banking at FAST National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences (Pakistan).
Since 2007, as a senior advisor to the World Bank and the IMF, he has led payment system modernization initiatives and financial market infrastructure assessments in more than 45 countries across Africa, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe, and the Middle East. He is currently leading two research projects commissioned by the World Bank and the IMF, focusing respectively on the macroeconomic impact of fast payment systems and the use of artificial intelligence in financial market infrastructures.
A former banker and central banker, Biagio has previously served as Executive Director at the World Bank, a member of the IMF Executive Board, Head of the International Payments Division at Banca d’Italia, and President of the Group of Lecce on global financial governance. He is a prolific author, with recent contributions to IMF Finance & Development, LSE Business Review, VoxEU, OMFIF, and Central Banking.