Antonino Galloni graduated in Law in Rome in 1975 at the age of 22.
In the following years he taught at the same University, Faculty of Political Science, with two courses in Contemporary Economic History on the Giolitti Age and Roosevelt’s New Deal. To specialize in American Economic History, in 1978 he conducted research in Berkeley (CA) funded by the CNR and under the guidance of Prof. Richard Webster.
In 1979 he returned to Italy, where he won a competition for a permanent official at the Ministry of Budget and Economic Planning. He met Prof. Federico Caffè with whom he began an intense scientific and editorial collaboration.
He is a member of the OECD “Ad hoc Group” on technological innovation in SMEs.
Since 1981 he has been very active within his Ministry in criticizing monetary policy choices and enjoys a large following in civil society for this commitment; he was sent to the Treasury to form a think tank (headed by Undersecretary of State Carlo Fracanzani) to understand whether the economic policies decided in those years were mandatory or optional. Having encountered the difficulties in changing the monetary policies of his country, in 1986 he moved to the Ministry of State Participations where an attempt was made to set up a garrison that would offer resistance to privatization projects and Undersecretary Angelo Picano appointed him Head of the Technical Secretariat. The attempt, after some initial successes, was thwarted in every way and Dr. Galloni received, at the beginning of 1987, two bombs that destroyed his house (although they did not injure him, his wife, or his little daughter).
At the end of 1987 – despite being promoted to section head – he left the public administration due to irreconcilable disagreements with the country’s ruling class.
He returned to the USA (Houston), became an industrial manager, and was a member of the board of directors of important Italian and foreign companies (Agip Coal, Aluminia, Gepi, Fintex co.) but was recalled to service by the Andreotti Government in 1989 to be appointed Head of the Technical Secretariat of the Ministry of the Budget with the aim of modifying the lines of economic and monetary policy of the country. But after a few months an agreement was reached between Kohl, Mitterand and Andreotti that defined a definitive structure for Europe: the renunciation of the mark, support for German reunification, a reduction of the industrial and political weight of Italy. Galloni was therefore forced to leave this position, but was promoted to General Director of the Ministry of Labour: in the years 1990-1993 he reorganised its statistical and information system with such success that he was awarded the honour of Grande Ufficiale al Merito della Repubblica and, later, the prestigious post of General Director of Cooperation by Minister Gino Giugni. He was then relieved of this position after 3 and a half years due to irreconcilable conflicts with the Masonic lodges that control the cooperative system itself thanks to an illegitimate act endorsed by the President of the Republic Oscar Luigi Scalfaro.
Ministerial advisor for employment policies until 1999 and President of the Technical Committee for the selective investigation of redundancy payments in large companies, he carried out a very severe criticism of the transformation of labor flexibility into precariousness. Following this, he had to leave the active administration in 2002 to take on delicate control roles in social security institutions: INPDAP (until 2010), INPS (until 2015), INAIL (until retirement on June 1, 2018).
Author of numerous essays and articles in specialized magazines, he is considered an exponent of the Italian post-Keynesian economic school.