Ottavio Ricchi

Ottavio Ricchi holds the position of Director of Economic and Financial Research and Analysis at the Treasury Department in the Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance.  He was formerly in charge, in turn, for potential output and structural public finance estimates, debt sustainability projections and productivity analysis, the macroeconomic forecasts unit and of the liaison unit with the EU-Economic Policy Committee. He is the chair of the EU-Output Gap Working Group and vice chair of the Global Forum on Productivity at the OECD. He graduated from the University of Naples and holds an MSc in economics at the University of York (UK) and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Exeter (UK). His main areas of interest include productivity analysis, economic modelling, public finance, and international economics.