Company Profile: SACE offers a wide range of financial and insurance products and services to support the competitiveness of Italian businesses. Backed by over thirty years of experience in the assessment, assumption and management of risks associated with operating in foreign markets, SACE supports its corporate customers through a network of offices throughout Italy and in the emerging countries with the greatest potential. SACE is fully controlled by “Cassa depositi e prestiti”, the national promotional institution which finances public investment, supports international cooperation and is the catalyst for the country’s infrastructure growth. 
Beniamino Quintieri is full Professor of International Economics at the University of Rome Tor Vergata and since June 2016 he has been Chairman of SACE. He is also Chairman of the Manlio Masi Foundation (National Observatory for Internationalization and Trade). From 2001 to 2005 he served as President of the Italian Trade Agency (ICE) and held the position of Italian government’s General Commissioner for the 2010 Shanghai Universal Exposition. 
He is the author or editor of 20 volumes and over 60 articles published in scientific journals on topics related to international economics, public finance, labor economics, macroeconomics and applied economics. In 2005, President of the Republic Carlo Azeglio Ciampi awarded him the highest honor of Knight Grand Cross. www.sace.it/en