Elena Carletti is Professor of Finance and Dean for Research at Bocconi University. She is a member of Board of Directors of Unicredit SpA, where she is the Chairwoman of the Internal Controls and Risk Committee. In addition, she is a Member of the Expert Group on Bank Supervision for the European Parliamentm and is the director of the Banking and Corporate Finance network as well as of the Research Policy Network on European Financial Architecture at the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR).
Ms. Carletti is the founder Director of the Florence School of Banking and Finance at the European University Institute, where she now serves as scientific advisor, and has been a member of the Advisory Scientific Committee of the European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB) from April 2015 to March 2023. She is also a past President of the European Finance Association.
Before joining Bocconi University in 2013, Ms Carletti was Professor of Economics at the European University Institute from 2008 to 2013, holding a joint chair in the Economics Department and the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies. Prior to that, she was Associate Professor at Goethe University in Frankfurt and Assistant Professor at the University of Mannheim.
Ms Carletti holds a Laurea from Bocconi University and a Ph.D. in Economics from the London School of Economics. She has published extensively in the most prestigious international journals on topics concerning Financial Intermediation, Financial Crises and Regulation, Competition Policy, Corporate Governance and Sovereign Debt.