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Padoa-Schioppa, Founding Member of ECB Board, Dies

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By Lorenzo Totaro, Brian Swint and Flavia Krause-Jackson

December 19, 2010 at 1:51 PM UTC

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Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, architect of the euro currency and founding member of the European Central Bank’s executive board, has died. He was 70.

Padoa-Schioppa died after suffering a heart attack in Rome last night while at a dinner with about 100 people, the newspaper La Repubblica reported on its website.