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Carletti Elena
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.
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Enriques Luca
Luca Enriques is Professor of Business Law at Bocconi University. From 2014 to early 2025 he was the Professor of Corporate Law at the University of Oxford Faculty of Law. He is also a Research Fellow and Research Member at the European Corporate Governance Institute (where he is also a member of the board), a Fellow Academic Member of the European Banking Institute (where he also co-chairs the Fintech Working Group) and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of European and Comparative Law at the University of Oxford. He has published widely in the fields of corporate law and financial regulation from a comparative and EU perspective.
He has held visiting positions, among others, at Cornell, Harvard, LUISS, IDC Herzliya, Cambridge, and Sydney Law School.
Lemaitre Marc
Marc Lemaître studied at Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and Bruges (College of Europe) and holds a Master in European Economics. He brings 25 years of profound experience in European Affairs, both in the European Commission and in the diplomatic service of Luxembourg.
Between 1996 and 2006, he worked in the Permanent Representation of Luxembourg to the European Union, dealing with budgetary, trade and general affairs issues. He joined the Commission in 2007 as Head of the private office of Regional Policy Commissioner, Danuta Hübner, and then her successor, Paweł Samecki. Between 2010 and 2013, he led the private office of Budget Commissioner Janusz Lewandowski. Between 2013 and 2016, he managed, as Director, the Office for Administration and Payment of individual entitlements (PMO). Between 2016 and January 2023, he was Director-General for Regional and Urban Policy (REGIO).
Since February 2023 he is Director-General for Research and Innovation (RTD)
Schuller Dagmar
Prof. Dagmar M. Schuller is CEO and Co-Founder of audEERING, the innovation leader in AI-based audio analysis. With more than 25 years of experience in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and digital strategy, she is a recognized expert in digital transformation and the human-centered application of voice-based AI. Her focus lies on using intelligent audio technologies to improve everyday life – from healthcare and robotics to AR/VR systems.
Since May 2021, Schuller has served as a member of the Plenum of the Chamber of Industry and Commerce for Munich and Upper Bavaria (IHK), Germany’s largest IHK. In June 2021, she was elected Vice President of the Chamber. Her work focuses on innovation, new technologies, technology transfer, and data economics. Additionally, she is Deputy Head for Political Affairs at the Bavarian Chapter of the German AI Association (KI Bundesverband e.V.), where she advises public institutions and companies on ethical, economic, and strategic questions around AI.
Schuller holds an engineer’s degree in information technology, a Master’s in international management and business informatics from Vienna University of Economics and Business and New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business, and a law degree from Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich with a specialization in IT law.
Sciaudone Francesco
Francesco Sciaudone is the founding and global managing partner of Grimaldi Alliance. He is, inter alia, the coordinator of Grimaldi Alliance's European and antitrust law department. He assists on a regular basis financial institutions, public entities, large corporations, in both judicial and extra-judicial matters.
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Bacchiega Alberto
An economist by training, Alberto Bacchiega joined the European Commission’s Directorate General for Competition in 2000. He has since then held a number of positions enforcing State aid and merger control in the telecoms, financial, pharmaceutical and chemical sectors. Since November 2021 he has been leading the directorate ‘Information, Communication and Media’ of DG COMP, which covers also the implementation of Digital Market Act.
Micheletti Francesca
Francesca Micheletti is a Senior Competition Correspondent at Politico Europe in Brussels. Previously, she was a director at FGS Global, where she advised on merger control and competition. She also led EMEA merger control coverage at PaRR and dealreporter. Francesca holds a background in Media and Communication Studies and Journalism, along with a Master’s in EU Interdisciplinary Studies from the College of Europe. Her earlier experience spans roles in newswires, daily newspapers, PR agencies, and the European Commission.