Elena Carletti

Research Unit Director. Elena Carletti earned a PhD at London School of Economics in 2000. She is Professor of Finance and Dean for Research at Bocconi University. She is also a member of the Board of Directors of Unicredit Group and a Member of the Expert Group on Bank Supervision for the European Parliament.

She is founding director of the Florence School of Banking and Finance at the European University Institute, a former member of the Advisory Scientific Committee of the European Systemic Risk Board and of the Bank of Italy Committee for Paolo Baffi Lecture Series.

She is a past President of the European Finance Association, Research Fellow at CEPR, Fellow of the Finance Theory Group and the Wharton Financial Institutions Center.

Before joining Bocconi, she was Professor of Economics at the European University Institute. She has served in the review panel of the Irish Central Bank, the Riksbank and the Bank of Spain; and has worked as consultant for the OECD and the World Bank. She has also been a board member of the Financial Intermediation Research Society and a review panel member for the creation of Financial Market Centres in Stockholm.

Her main research areas are financial intermediation and regulation, corporate governance and sovereign debt. She has published numerous articles in leading academic journals, and has coedited various books. She participates regularly in policy debates and roundtables at central banks and international organizations, and has also organized numerous academic and policy-oriented events.