Moreno Bertoldi is the head of unit, Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs and former senior economist at the European Commission in Brussels. Mr. Bertoldi formerly served as counselor for the Delegation of the EC in Japan and head of the political and economic section, before he became economic and financial counselor for the Delegation of the EC in the United States. He was head of the economic and financial section and coordinator of the economic sections of the Delegation. In 1997, he was a visiting research fellow at the Institute for International Monetary Affairs in Tokyo, Japan, and at the Economic Planning Agency in the Economic Research Institute in Tokyo. Mr. Bertoldi started his career at the EC as an administrator in DG XXII, Directorate General for the Coordination of Structural Policies, and in DG I, Directorate General for External Relations. He holds degrees in economic analysis and economic policy from École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, France, and in economics and social sciences from the "Luigi Bocconi" University in Milan, Italy.