Libero Milone
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Libero Milone | |
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| Occupation | Businessman |
| Known for | first auditor-general of the Vatican |
Libero Milone is a Netherlands-born Italian businessman who has held high-ranking positions at Deloitte and who was appointed by Pope Francis to be the first auditor-general of the Vatican in 2015 before being forced to resign in 2017.
Milone was born in The Hague and was educated in The Netherlands and the United Kingdom.[1][2]
After starting his career in London, he began a 32-year career with Deloitte and moved to Italy in 1975, where he became a partner in Deloitte's audit department in 1984. He served as Deloitte's Italian human resources leader (1984–1995), then its Europe-wide human resources leader (1991–1995), and finally as its managing director of human resources worldwide, based in New York (1998–2003), and then chairman and CEO of Deloitte in Italy (2003-2007). He was also a member of Deloitte's worldwide management (1998–2003), coordinator of its worldwide aviation interest group (1996-2002), managing director of its worldwide aviation and transport industry group (2002–2007), and member of its worldwide board and governance committee (2003–2007).[1][3]
From 2008 to 2011, he was a senior advisor and honorary president of Protiviti, a multinational corporate governance and risk management consultancy. He has served as a nonexecutive director of companies including Fiat Industrial s.P.a., the Poltrona Frau Group, Indesit, Tofaş, and Falck Renewables.[3] From 2008 to 2011, he also served as a member of the audit committee of the UN World Food Programme.[1][3] In 1975, he became a Chartered Accountant of England and Wales. He became a member of Italy's Istituto Nazionale dei Revisori Contabili in 1995 and of NedCommunity, the Italian Association of Non-Executive Directors and Supervisory Board Members, in 2008.[1]
From 2012 to 2016, he was chairman of his own consulting company, Milone Associates.[3]