Carmine Di Noia, 41, is Deputy Director General and Head of Capital Markets and Listed Companies at Assonime (the Association of the Italian Corporations). He is member of the ESME (European Securities Market Expert Group) at the European Commission. He was member of other groups appointed by the European Commission: the Clearing and Settlement Advisory Monitoring Expert Group (CESAME) (2005-06); the Forum Group on Auditors Liability (2005-06); the Securities Expert Group on Financial Services Action Plan (2003-04). He was also member of the Consultative Working Group on Market Abuse of CESR (The Committee of European Securities Regulators).

He is currently member of the Legal Committee of EALIC, the technical Committee on the Italian Capital Market Forum established by the Finance Ministry and board member of the XBRL Italian Association. He was member of the working group which drafted the new version of the Italian Corporate Governance Code.

He was, until April 2001, the Head of the Market Information Office at Consob (the Italian Securities and Exchange Regulator). He joined Consob in 1995 at the Economics department.

He received a Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Pennsylvania (USA) and a doctorate in Economic Theory at the University “Tor Vergata” of Roma, Italy.

He has taught Microeconomics at the Dept. of Economics of the University of Pennsylvania and Monetary Economics at the Luiss-Guido Carli University in Rome.