Francesco Saita, director

francesco.saita@unibocconi.it

Francesco Saita is full professor of Financial Markets and Institutions at Bocconi University, Milan. His main research areas are bank risk management and regulation, risk measurement for managed portfolios, asset and liability management for life insurance companies and equity derivatives.

Francesco has spent all his career at Bocconi, where he is also the Dean of the Graduate School. In the past, he has been Vice-director of Newfin, Bocconi’s research center on financial innovation that later merged into Carefin, from 2001 to 2007, Director of the M.Sc. in Finance from 2004 to 2007, and Head of the Department of Finance from 2007 to 2010. He has also been visiting scholar at the Stern School of Business, New York University, in 1994. He is a member of the Scientific Committee of AIFIRM, the Association of Italian Financial Risk Managers. He is also senior lecturer at SDA Bocconi, for which he has been in charge of several executive education courses, including dedicated courses for supervisors. He has also been an independent board member in an asset management company and has served as a consultant on risk management issues for banks and life insurance companies.