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Elsa Fornero is Honorary Professor of Economics at the University of Turin, where she held the chair of political economy until 2018, and scientific coordinator of CeRP, the Centre for Research on Pensions and Welfare Policies, which she founded in 1999 as the first research centre devoted to pensions in Italy. She served as Italy’s Minister of Labour, Social Policies and Equal Opportunities from November 2011 to April 2013, where she conceived and drafted the country’s pension and labour market reforms and created the ASPI unemployment insurance scheme, for which she received the Tarantelli prize. She is a member of the Academia Europaea and works on household saving and financial literacy.