Attilio Di Mattia was born in Ortona a mare (CH), Italy on December 26th, 1976. When he was a little boy, he told his grandfather, who was a train conductor and a local labor leader, that he wanted to become a President of the United States of America. This memory still makes him laugh today.

In the 80’s, Attilio went to the Via Adige-Montesilvano elementary public school, and during holidays together with his neighbors and friends he used to promote the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) by distributing red carnations at the local supermarket.

Attilio Di Mattia has a dual Italian-American citizenship; his father was born in Pratola Peligna (AQ) and raised in Pescara, Italy and his mother was born and raised in Philadelphia, USA. In order to nurture and keep in touch with his mother’s culture and language, Attilio spent most summer holidays attending sports camps in Pennsylvania and later on as he grew up he worked as a counselor in the same camps.

After studying at the Villa Verrocchio middle high school, Attilio attended the Spaventa Liceum of Montesilvano. During this period he got fascinated by the Cheguevarian marketing machine of the newly founded Communist Refoundation Party (RFC). Attilio organized concerts and political events for the youth department of this party.

Attilio Di Mattia earned a bachelor degree in Economics from the D’Annunzio University (UDA) of Pescara. During his studies he worked for Foot Locker, this part-time job was an important experience that allowed him to learn the first basic principles of negotiation. During his undergraduate studies Attilio was elected to the University Faculty Board in representation of the faculty students.  Attilio prepared his thesis in Seville, Spain where he learned to speak Spanish fluently.

Attilio Di Mattia earned a Master in business administration (MBA) from the Haub School of Business at Saint Joseph’s University, Philadelphia. During the second year of the Master program, Attilio was hired by the ING Bank, an international bank head quartered in the Netherlands.

For ING Bank, Attilio worked in New York, Philadelphia and Los Angeles. In California he co-managed and traded for an eight billion dollars asset backed security (ABS) and Whole Loan Portfolio.

Attilio was recruited in 2006 to work for Avendis Capital, a Geneva based hedge fund, to ramp and trade ABSs and other structured products for the first European SIV Lite and for the company’s prop book. After a short work assignment in Geneva, Attilio was hired as a Portfolio Manager and Trader by Aurelius Capital, a EUR 3.5 billion independent asset manager, head quartered in Vienna, Austria specialized in structured products and high yield bonds.

In 2007 Attilio founded a non-profit organization called Abruzzo Sostenibile, with the mission of spreading financial innovation and promoting political sustainability for the Region of Abruzzo.

Attilio is currently working on a doctoral program at the University d’Angers, France with Professor Guido Hullsmann, Ludwig Von Mises Institute’s Senior Fellow and Professor of Economics at the University d’Angers.

Under the leadership of Congressman Antonio Borghesi, Attilio heads up the Finance and Markets Research Department of Italia dei Valori, the most prominent liberal democrat party in Italy. Italia dei Valori is the Blue Dog Democratic Coalition equivalent in United States.

Attilio Di Mattia was elected on June 2009, in the County of Pescara as a Board Member and is part of the Second Commission (Business Activities and Tourism)   and Seventh Commission (Energy, Environment and Innovation).

Attilio Di Mattia is married to Maria Harjula, a Finnish Learning Support Specialist and lives between Austria and Italy.

“The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.”
– Ernest Hemingway, “Notes on the Next War: A Serious Topical Letter” , 1935