Elena Carletti

Member of the Management Council
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Elena Carletti
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Elena Carletti is a Professor of Finance and Dean for Research at Bocconi University, where she also serves in the Executive Committee of the newly established Institute for European Policymaking and directs the Unit "Banking, Finance and Regulation" at the Baffi Carefin Center for Applied Research. In addition, she is the Director of the Banking and Corporate Finance Programme as well as of the Research Policy Network on European Financial Architecture at the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). 

She is a member of the Board of Directors of Unicredit Group, where she is the Chairwoman of the Internal Controls and Risk Committee, and also a Member of the Expert Group on Bank Supervision for the European Parliament. 

Elena 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. She has been a member of the Scientific Committee “Paolo Baffi Lecture” at the Bank of Italy from 2015 to 2021, and a member  of the Advisory Scientific Committee of the European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB) from 2015 to 2023. 

She was President of the European Finance Association in 2022 and 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 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.

 

European Policies

Ukraine’s Reconstruction: Policy Options for Building an Effective Financial Architecture
2024

It is now over two years since Russia launched its brutal full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Ever since those early days, a broad network of CEPR economists has been working intensively with colleagues in Ukraine and across the international research and policy communities to explore how to tackle the big economic challenges of the war and how to plan for the country’s post-war reconstruction. 
 

Public presentations

Much Money, Little Capital, and Few Reforms - The 2023 Banking Turmoil
28/11/2024 - 28/11/2024
Aula Manfredini - via Sarfatti 25

While past reforms have helped, more are needed to ensure financial stability in a rapidly changing economic environment, with a focus on preventing future crises through better regulation, supervision, and coordination of monetary and financial stability policies. 

Monetary Policy and Financial Stability
23/02/2024 - 23/02/2024
Aula Manfredini

A lecture by Isabel Schnabel, Member of the Executive Board, European Central Bank, who will speak about "Has the fight against inflation been won?"

wEUbinars

Ukraine's Reconstruction: Policy Options for Building an Effective Financial Architecture
29/04/2024 - 29/04/2024
WEBINAR

The tragedy of the war also gives Ukraine an opportunity to build back better, to modernize the country along many dimensions, and to be ready to withstand possible further Russian aggression and become an important element of the NATO security system. A CEPR report makes a series of proposals on reforms and policies necessary to achieve these goals.

Conferences

Climate Finance in a World of Fundamental Uncertainty
18/01/2024 - 18/01/2024
Hybrid Event - Velodromo, room N04

An event co-organized by BAFFI, IEP@BU and SUERF to explore the tight relation between investors’ expectations, climate policy and regulatory uncertainty and risk assessment and discuss challenges and opportunities for financial regulation in contexts of high inflation, tight fiscal budgets and sovereign debt distress, growing climate-related events and by other key financial reforms, such as the European banking reform.