Other activities
Monti actively participates in several major think tanks. He was the founding chairman of Bruegel, another European think tank, which was formed in 2005.
From 2005[54] to 2008,[55] he was the first president of the Bruegel.[56] Monti is also a leading member of the exclusive Bilderberg Group.[57] He has also been an international advisor to Goldman Sachs[58] and The Coca-Cola Company.[59] In 2010, he became President of the Trilateral Commission.[60]
In 2007, Monti was one of the first supporters of the first European civic forum, États Généraux de l'Europe, initiated by European think tank EuropaNova and European Movement. He was also a member of the French government's Attali Commission from 2007 to 2008,[6][61] appointed by Nicolas Sarkozy to provide recommendations to enhance economic growth in France.
Monti is a founding member of the Spinelli Group,[62] an organization launched in September 2010 to facilitate integration within the European Union (other members of the steering group include Jacques Delors, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Guy Verhofstadt, Andrew Duff and Elmar Brok).
In January 2014, Monti became Chairman of the High Level Group on Own Resources, a consultative committee of the European Union aimed at proposing new forms of revenue for the European Union's budget. The final report of the group was adopted in December 2016 and published in January 2017.[63] It argued for new tax sources, such as on carbon and fuel.[64]
In 2019, Monti chaired a search committee which recommended to the European Commission the appointment of Mauro Ferrari as the next President of the European Research Council (ERC).[65] In 2020, he was appointed by the World Health Organization's Regional Office for Europe to chair the Pan-European Commission on Health and Sustainable Development to make recommendations on investments and reforms to improve the resilience of health and social care systems.[66]
Other activities include:
- Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), Distinguished Fellow (since 2019)[67]
- Centre for European Reform (CER), Member of the Advisory Board[68]
- European Investment Bank (EIB), Member of the Appointment Advisory Committee[69]
- Friends of Europe, Member of the Praesidium
- Moody's, Member of the Senior European Advisory Council[70]
- Atlantic Council, Member of the Business and Economics Advisors Group[71]
