Franco Russo

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Franco Russo
Franco Russo 2023.png
Russo in 2023
Governor of the Republican Central Bank
In office
1st February 2017 – 31st January 2023
Prime MinisterArchetenia Nera
Maurizio Conte
Damián Moya
Preceded byDomenica Ferreneta
Succeeded byElisabetta Granmatre
Personal details
Born
Franco Alessandro Daniele Russo

(1975-06-16) 16 June 1975 (age 49)
Bosche di Brasso, Pomentane, Pacitalia
Political partyPacitalian Social Democratic Congress
(2020–present)
Other political
affiliations
Spouse
Giorgia Russo (m. 2011)
Alma mater
  • University of Saronno (JD)
  • Universitat Obertà d'Empordà (MPA)
  • University of Mandragora (BSc)
AwardsList of honours and decorations

Franco Alessandro Daniele Russo (born 16th June 1975) is a Pacitalian politician, lawyer and economist who is the Pacitalian Social Democratic Congress' candidate for Archonate in the 2023 election. Russo served as the Governor of the Republican Central Bank from 2017 to 2023, and his approach to monetary policy during his term is widely credited with helping Pacitalia emerge from a deep recession in the mid-2010s.

Russo was a candidate for Archonate once before, running for the PSC in the 2016 election. He placed a surprise second, despite polling that suggested he would be eliminated in the first round, and subsequently advanced to the runoff, narrowly losing to industrialist Carmine Bello of the Christian Democrats in what became a highly contentious election result. After irregularities were discovered in the vote, the election was annulled and re-run in 2017.

After Russo declined to run again, then-prime minister Archetenia Nera went on to nominate him to run the Pacitalian central bank in early 2017.