I am a Professor of Banking and Finance and, since November 2022, the President of Bocconi University. I was Rector from 2012 to 2016. Since May 2021 I am President of the Italian Foundation for Cancer Research (AIRC), while in May 2022 I became Chairman of Assicurazioni Generali. Until April 2022 I have been chair of Borsa Italiana, the Italian stock exchange. 

I have held visiting positions at the Research and Statistics Division of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in Washington, DC, at the Salomon Brothers Center, Stern School of Business (NYU), and at Sciences Po, Paris. In the past, I have been a member of the BoD of the London Stock Exchange Group, of the Intesa SanPaolo Group and of the Unicredit Group. At the beginning of my career, I was a financial analyst at the Chase Manhattan Bank in London.