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Mario Draghi

Mario Draghi

🇮🇹Italy

Rank #50
Score: 71
About Mario Draghi

Mario Draghi (b.1947) is an economist and former President of the European Central Bank (2011–2019) who served as Italy’s Prime Minister (2021–2022) heading a broad technical coalition. Renowned for crisis management and economic expertise (‘whatever it takes’ era at ECB), Draghi’s tenure focused on managing COVID recovery funds, reform commitments and restoring market confidence.

Scoring Breakdown
Detailed analysis of the politician's score.

HDI
~0.892 (Italy UNDP HDI)8/10
Source: UNDP Human Development Report — Italy (2022)
GDP per capita
Italy GDP per capita; Draghi led NextGenerationEU implementation boosting investment disbursement8/10
Source: World Bank — Italy economic profile (2022)
Gini coefficient
~33.7 (Italy Gini)4/10
Source: World Bank — Gini index (Italy) (2022)
Employment rate
Employment-to-population ratio — recovery during post-pandemic period4/5
Source: ILOSTAT — Italy country profile (2023)
Freedom index
Strong civic and political rights in Italy; overall 'Free'5/10
Source: Freedom House — Italy report (2023)
Corruption index
Transparency Int'l — Italy CPI and governance context3/5
Source: Transparency International — Italy CPI (2023)

Derived Criminal Score
No public criminal convictions recorded20/20
Source: Public record (no convictions) (2025)