Gilberto MURARO - Curriculum vitae ( January 2011) Department of Economic Sciences, University of Padua, Via del Santo 33- 35123 Padova (Italy) Tel. 049-8274229. Fax 049-8274221, Handy 335 8017494; E mail: gilberto.muraro@,unipd.it. (Born in Padua, 6th of December, 1939- living in Padua ) Current position : Professor of Public Finance, University of Padua. Chairman of the Evaluation Committee, University of Bologna and University of Macerata. Previous appointments ( chronological order) : Assistant professor and lecturer (Universities of Venice, Pavia, Padua). Professor of Public Finance, Director of the Institute of Finance and Dean of the Degree in Economics and Commerce at the Faculty of Economics, University of Venice. Member of the Economic Expert Group, Environmental Directorate, OECD. Editorial Board of “Environmental and Resource Economics” Member of the Technical Commission on Public Expenditure at the Treasury. Member of the Scientific Board of the Eni “Enrico Mattei” Foundation. Rector, University of Padua. President of the Italian Association of Health Economics. Vice-chairman of the National Council on Health Care. Chairman of Supervisory Committee on the Use of Water Resources. President of the Italian Society of Public Economics(SIEP). Director of the review “Politiche Sanitarie” ( Health Care Policies). Chairman of the Technical Commission on Public Finance at the Ministry of Economy and Finances. Director of the CRIEP-Interuniversity Centre of Research on Public Economics ( Universities of Padua, Venice, and Verona) Education : Laurea degree cum laude in Economic and Business Studies, University of Venice, Master in Economics, University of York (UK), Visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge (UK) and University of California at Santa Barbara and Berkeley. Research interests : Public Finance; Health Economics; Environmental Economics; Water Resources Management; Cost-benefit analysis. .