Draghi: Call of duty for Italy’s ‘Super Mario’

But at school, he remained focused and studious. There was little sign of the personal trauma he was facing, says Staffan de Mistura, who most recently served as United Nations Special Envoy for Syria. The Jesuit school they attended instilled in him a sense of social duty, he says: a desire to give back to society, which characterised Mr Draghi’s career.