Giuseppe Boccuzzi is Director General of the Fondo Interbancario di Tutela dei Depositi (Interbank Deposit Protection Fund). After a long career as officer in the Bank of Italy where he headed up a Special Unit on Banking Crisis within the Banking and Financial Supervisory Department, he coordinated a working group for the implementation of Basel II in the Italian legislation. He participated in the work of the European Commission for the preparation of the 94/19/EC Directive on Deposit Guarantee Schemes and the 2001/24/EC Directive on the Reorganization and Winding-Up of Credit Institutions, and was appointed to the Financial Stability Forum's 'Task Force on Dealing with Weak Banks', in collaboration with the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. He was the Bank of Italy's representative to the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision from 2006 to 2008, and was appointed to both the 'Core Consultative Group' organized by the World Bank and IMF, and the 'Core Principles LiaisonGroup'. In the last three years he was Director of the Bank of Italy branch in Naples. Giuseppe Boccuzzi has a national qualification as Associate Professor in Law and Economics, and lectures on Banking and Insolvency Law. He has written numerous publications in the field of regulation, banking crisis management and bankruptcy law.