Bernardo Bortolotti

Director of the Sovereign Investment Lab. Bernardo Bortolotti is Director of the Sovereign Investment Lab at the Baffi Centre on Economics, Finance and Regulation at Bocconi University and Professor in economics at the University of Turin. His research focuses on the complex relationships between state and markets, with special emphasis on state ownership of firms, regulation, and corporate governance. He is one the leading experts in privatization, state-assets management and divestiture, and sovereign wealth funds. His work appeared in major academic journals and he has published two books with Oxford University Press. He has been Executive Director of Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei. He has advised the World Bank, the Initiative for Policy Dialogue, the Italian Ministry of the Economy as secretary of the Global Advisory Committee on Privatization, the Italian Audit Office, and major listed companies and financial institutions. He is member of the Investment Committee of Compagnia di San Paolo. He is the founder of the Privatization Barometer. He received his PhD in economics from the Université Catholique de Louvain.