Role
Full Professor of Finance and Dean for Research at Bocconi University and Vice President of the Board of Directors of UniCredit
Bio
Elena Carletti is a Full Professor of Finance at Bocconi University and, since 2022, Dean for Research. In this role, she is part of the University's leadership, with responsibility for strategy and oversight of research activities and centers, institutional evaluation processes, research incentives, and scientific performance assessment. She has promoted the development of artificial intelligence in social science research, including the creation of a new dedicated laboratory.
Since 2019, she has been a non-executive director of UniCredit and, since 2024, Vice Chair of the Board of Directors, Chair of the Risk Committee and member of the Governance Committee.
She has gained extensive experience in European and international institutions. She served on the Advisory Scientific Committee of the European Systemic Risk Board for two consecutive terms (2015–2023), on the European Parliament's Expert Panel on Banking Supervision (2016–2024), and as Founding Director of the Florence School of Banking and Finance (2016–2020). She has also held positions at central banks, the World Bank, and the OECD. Her research focuses on financial intermediation, crises, systemic risk, prudential regulation, and corporate governance, with numerous publications in leading international scientific journals.