Antonio Maria Rinaldi

Antonio Maria Rinaldi (born 27 February 1955) is an Italian economist and politician.

He has always expressed critical positions towards the euro as a single European currency.

With a strongly Eurosceptic orientation,[3] Rinaldi calls himself a post-Keynesian economist.

His father was the banker Rodolfo Rinaldi, president of Banco di Santo Spirito, vice-president of Banca Nazionale del Lavoro and representative in Europe of the Chase Manhattan Bank, while his mother is the noblewoman Isabella Rossini, a distant descendant of the famous composer Gioachino Rossini.

He worked at various credit institutions, such as Banco di Roma, American Service Bank and Fideuram; he was also an official of the CONSOB and a manager at Eni (1986-1994).