The Public Debt Management Newtwork

• 2001/02 Discussion of the project between the OECD and the Italian Treasury, with the essential role played by Gianluca Colarusso, first responsible of the PDM Network.

  Gianluca Colarusso dedicated a huge effort in activating contacts with representatives of the Italian Permanent Delegation at the OECD and with representatives of OECD – DAF (Department of Fiscal Affairs) and WPDM, with the aim of clarifying the project’s mission and of setting up resources, participants and activities. He also put forward an exhaustive analysis of the future complex organisational structure, with an effective multilateral character. Unfortunately, he could not see the fruits of his work, but the PDM Network is indebted to him for his invaluable contribution.

• 2002/03 12th and 13th OECD Global Forums On “Government Securities Markets and Public Debt Management in Emerging Markets”: presentation and discussion of the initiative.

• 2004 The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the OECD and the Italian Treasury is signed.

• 2005 A static and dynamic website is set up by the Italian Treasury – Public Debt Directorate.

• 2006 The website is maintained and enriched with documents and new interactive features are developed.

• 2007 The “Academic Circle” is launched and organised.

• 2008 Enlargement of Partner participation and improvement of information quality.

• 2009 Website restyling. Content and information improvement.

The PDM website is accessible by Partners after authentication and is subdivided in two security levels.

• Security Level 1: Debt managers have access to all contents of the website.

• Security Level 2: Other Partners have access to all contents of the website, except for limited confidential information dedicated only to debt managers.

The PDM website is organised into three main areas: documentation, news and interactive areas.

• The documentation area: It contains theoretical and/or empirical literature: papers, article in books, unpublished documents, reports, other web resources collected either from the web or submitted by the Network Partners. This area is organized by 7 macro “Areas of interest” (e.g. Core topics in debt management, Active debt management, Coordination with other policies and operations, etc.) and 25 sub-categories (e.g. Primary market, Post trading, Cash management, etc.)

• The news area: It shows most relevant Events, courses and other initiatives and news pertaining to debt management

• The interactive area: E-mail alerts, Advanced Search and Forum.