Leonardo Borlini

M.sc in Economics and Business Administration from Bocconi University (magna cum laude) and M.sc in Law (J.D. equivalent) from the University of Pavia (magna cum laude). LL.M from the University of Cambridge. Ph.D. in International Law and Economics from Bocconi University (magna cum laude).

He is a Faculty Member of the Ph.D. in Legal Studies, a Fellow at BAFFI CAREFIN (Centre for Applied Research on International Markets, Banking, Finance, and Regulation), and a member of the Bocconi Covid Crisis Lab. He is co-editor in chief of the Bocconi Legal Papers Research Series. He is also Attorney-at-Law at the Milan Bar.

In 2021 he was unanimously declared a Full Professor of International Law by the Italian national scientific committee. In 2018 he was unanimously declared an Associate Professor of International Law.

In 2019, he was a Fulbright Grant Researcher at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. Since a.y. 2020-2021, he has been Visiting Professor at the School of Transnational Law at Peking University and, since 2022-2023, Visiting Professor at the Singapore Management University, Yong Pung How School of Law.

Before joining University Bocconi, he was an Associate Lawyer at the Regulatory Department of Grande Stevens Law firm in Milan. Apart from his academic appointments, he has served the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as a Technical Assistance Specialist (2011-2013) and authored and co-authored reports commissioned by the Council of Europe, the European Commission, the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), the World Bank, and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). Since 2011, he has participated in different technical assistance programs led by the European Commission, the Council of Europe, the IMF, and the Inter-American Development Bank, with field missions in Greece, Vietnam, Panama, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Georgia.