Filippo Taddei Senior European Economist, Executive Director Goldman Sachs International Filippo Taddei is Senior Economist for Southern Europe within the European Team in Global Investment Research at Goldman Sachs. Until 2020, he was Associate Professor of International Economics at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) where he taught international finance and macroeconomics. From 2013 to 2017 he has been the Economic and Labor Affairs Spokesperson of the Italian Prime Minister. In this capacity he was one of the main designers of the Italian labor market reform - the Jobs Act, and contributed to the design of fiscal policy and banks reforms. Ph. D. in Economics with distinction from Columbia University in 2005, Laurea in Economics with honors from the University of Bologna in 2000, Taddei has been awarded the Lamfalussy Fellowship by the European Central Bank and the Young Economist Award by the European Economic Association. Before joining Goldman Sachs, he has been consulting several multinational companies, the European Commission, the International Labour Organization and the World Bank.