I earned a MSc in Business Administration from the University of Genoa and a Ph.D. in Financial Markets and Institutions from the University of Siena. I am the Dean of SDA Bocconi School of Management (since November 2022) and I was Vice Rector for International Affairs at Bocconi University (from 2012 to 2022), where I am a Full Professor of Banking and Finance and Algebris Chair in “Long-Term Investment and Absolute Return”. I have also been a member of the board of directors of the SDA Bocconi School of Management since 2006. I am member of the International Advisory Board of: the School of Transnational Governance at the European University Institute in Florence; the Stockholm School of Economics; SGH – the Warsaw School of Economics. Moreover, I contributed to the foundation and to the development of two Labs at Bocconi University in the Baffi-Carefin Research Center. The first one (since 2013) is the “Equita Research Lab in Capital Markets”, devoted to study the impact of financial markets. The second one (since 2021) is the “Algorand Fintech Lab”, devoted to study avenues to apply technologies at large to transform the financial eco-system.