University Members
Leonardo Becchetti is full professor of Economics University of Rome Tor Vergata, Msc London School of Economics, PhD Oxford and Roma La Sapienza, Director of Master in International Cooperation and Development Economics in Tor Vergata. Author of around 450 research works (papers published in international or Italian journals and working papers).
His research topics are behavioral economics, happiness studies, corporate social responsibility, finance and development. He was ranked 63rd for number of journal pages published on scientific journals, top 0.93 percent author for last 10 year aggregate ranking and top 0.86 percent author for breadth of citations across fields in the world REPEC rankings (at March 2019). He chairs the ethical committee of Etica sgr the leading ethical investment asset management company in Italy. He is founder of Next a network of the main actors of the Italian civil society working on the field of corporate social responsibility, blogger of the main Italian newspaper (la Repubblica), editorialist of Avvenire, He has published several divulgative books on his research topics among which Wikieconomia (il Mulino), Sette passi per capire l’economia (Minimum Fax), Il denaro fa la felicità? (Laterza)
Carlo Bellavite Pellegrini (BSc Economics at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Milan, 1991; Ph.D. in Economics at the Bocconi University of Milan, 1996).
Since 2016 he is Full Professor of Corporate Finance, Faculty of Banking, Finance and Insurance Sciences, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Milan. November 2016 – September 2018 Member of the National Committee for the National Qualification of Associate and Full Professor of Banking and Finance. Since November 2017, he is Director of the Research Centre for studies in Applied Economics, Catholic University.
He is fellow of research centres and Scientific Societies.He was visiting scholar at the University Carlos III in Madrid-2008, the University Cergy-Pontoise in Paris-2011, the Cass Business School in London-2012-2019.
For the full cv visit the following link: https://docenti.unicatt.it/ppd2/it/#/it/docenti/12556/carlo-bellavite-pellegrini/profilo
Giuliana Birindelli, PhD, is Full Professor of Financial Markets and Institutions at the Department of Management and Business Administration, “G. d’Annunzio” University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy, where she teaches “Management of Financial Institutions” and “Banking and Finance”.
She is member of the Scientific-Technical Committee of AIFIRM (Association of Italian Financial Risk Managers), member of the Advisory Board of Trustees of CUEIM (Consorzio Universitario di Economia Industriale e Manageriale – University Consortium of Industrial and Managerial Economics), Associate Director of BifeLab (Laboratorio Banca, Impresa, Finanza ed Etica – Research Laboratory on “Banks, Firms, Finance and Ethics”) and member of the (Italian) Scientific Committee of IPAZIA Observatory on gender research.
She is also PhD committee member in “Business and Behavioral Sciences” at the “G. d’Annunzio” University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy. At present, she is member of the Board of Auditors of the Bank of Italy. Her main research interests are social and environmental performance in the banking sector, corporate governance of banks, Basel III, internal rating systems, operational risk and compliance risk.
Full professor at the department of Applied Economy UNED ( Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia) Spain.
Main coordinator of the Master degree in Corporate social responsibility and Sustainability
Professor at PhD program on Economy and Business (UNED).
Led researches are mainly focused on Corporate Social Responsibility Performance and Reporting, Sustainable Finance (microfinance, social responsible investments, financial inclusion) and banking and finance. Researches published in books, conference proceedings, and academic journals such as Journal of Cleaner Production, Journal of Business Ethics, Business Ethics: a European Review, Journal of Consumer Policy, Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management etc.
She has been Independent member at Banca cívica Board, Economic Affairs Vice chancellor (UNED) and President of Economist without borders.
Nicoletta Marinelli is an Assistant Professor of Financial Markets and Institutions at the Department of Economics and Law, University of Macerata – Italy, where she teaches Financial Risk Management and Financial Derivatives.
Her main academic interests are in the area of investors behaviour, from both the perspectives of individual as well as institutional investors. Individual investors have been studied with a privilege focus on their risk tolerance assessment and the related impact upon financial and insurance decisions. Institutional investors have been investigated as a broad category or individually defined types with a specific attention on their effect upon firm value.
Her previous research has also addressed the important issue of alternative investments (specifically, fine art). Recently, she has further developed this area of investigation by studying Social Impact Finance, with a specific focus on the contribution to portfolio diversification.
For a detailed curriculum vitae, please see the following link: http://docenti.unimc.it/nicoletta.marinelli
Maurizio Pompella (BSc, MSc, PhD) is a Full Professor of Financial Intermediaries Economics at the University of Siena, School of Economics and Management. Dean of the Economics and Banking Degree (from 2009 to 2014), he is currently Dean of the MSc in Economics and Management of Financial Intermediaries.
Visiting Professor and PhD Supervisor at LSU-NN, SibFU, and OMSU, Russian Federation, since 2014, Maurizio is also serving as an Adjunct Professor at Charles University in Prague (CZ), since 2012. Editor of the Palgrave Series on Risk and Insurance, Palgrave-Macmillan, since 2015, he has been book reviewer for the JRI, published by American Risk and Insurance Association, since 2003, and he is on the Editorial Board of a series of journals. Namely i- The Review of Business (St. John’s University New York, US), ii- the Vestnik of LSU (Nizhniy Novgorod, RF), iii- EKONOMIKA (Vilnius University, LT), and iv- Business, Management and Education (GTUV, LT). Maurizio has been teaching Banking, Finance, and Insurance at graduate and post-graduate level in Italy, Eastern Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, Russia, and China. His areas of expertise include Banking, Insurance Economics, Structured Finance and Insurance, Fintech and Blockchain, Alternative Risk Transfer.
https://www.disag.unisi.it/it/dipartimento/personale/docenti/maurizio-pompella
Giuseppe Scellato is associate Professor at Politecnico di Torino, where he teaches corporate finance and economics and management of innovation. He is the President of the Business Incubator of Politecnico di Torino.
During 2015-2018 he has been the Vice Dean of the Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management. Since 2017 he is a member of the board of the Future Urban Legacy Lab (FULL-Polito). Since 2008 he is research affiliate of the Bureau of Research in Innovation Complexity and Knowledge at Collegio Carlo Alberto.
His main research interests are in the area of economics and management of innovation, entrepreneurial finance, the economic analysis of intellectual property rights and the economics of science. His scientific publications have appeared in leading international journals, including Science, Nature, Journal of Corporate Finance, Research Policy, Journal of Banking and Finance. He has been the principal investigator of research projects funded by the European Commission, the European Patent Office, the EU Joint Research Center, the European Investment Bank, the National Bureau of Economic Research (USA). He has been member of expert groups and committees for the evaluation of public policies for research and innovation.
Website:
http://innovationstudies.polito.it/people/giuseppe-scellato/
Barbara is the Professor for Entrepreneurship at Munich Business School. Her research focuses on the financing of social enterprises, impact and mission-related investing and impact assessment. Prior to joining MBS, Barbara was assistant professor for social investment at Hamburg University.
During her Ph.D. she has developed the Social Reporting Standard, guidelines for impact-oriented reporting. Other significant experiences include consulting for a social venture capital fund and projects for development cooperation agencies on social entrepreneurship. She was a Visiting Fellow at the Asia Centre for Social Entrepreneurship & Philanthropy at NUS National University of Singapore and is a co-founder of the digital mentoring platform Volunteer Vision. Barbara was a member of the EU’s GECES subgroup on impact measurement in social enterprise and the Impact Measurement Working Group of the Social Impact Investment Task Force established by the G8. She serves on the board of Hylea Foods and is member of the investment committee at GLS Treuhand.
Barbara holds a Diplôme de Grande Ecole and MSc from the European School of Management where she studied International Business Administration in Paris, Oxford and Berlin and a PhD from Technical University Munich.
Dr. Volker Then has been the Executive Director (and Founding Director) of the Centre for Social Investment of Heidelberg University since 2006. Previously, he worked at the Bertelsmann Foundation, Germany, in his last position as their Director Philanthropy and Foundations. Volker Then served on numerous bodies of international philanthropy organizations, including the Governing Council of the European Foundation Centre, Brussels, the International Committee of the Council on Foundations, Washington D.C., and the Executive Session in Philanthropy des Hauser Centre for Non-profit Organizations, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (1999-2002). He still is a member of the editorial boards of the international „Alliance“ and the German „Stiftung & Sponsoring“ journals.
He is also a board member of several German foundations, e.g. the Manfred-Lautenschläger-Stiftung, and since 2014 has been a member of the German National Advisory Board of the G8-Social Impact Investment Task Force. The research interests of Volker Then currently focus on social impact measurement, social investment and social innovation, as well as philanthropy and its strategy development. He has regularly published on these issues and has international teaching, executive training and advisory experience. This work included working with living donors and foundation executives of many of the large foundations of Europe.
His most recent publication was: Then, Volker et al. (2018): Social Return on Investment Analysis. Measuring the Impact of Social Investment, Palgrave, Basingstoke.
Volker Then holds a Ph.D. from the Free University of Berlin in Social and Economic History. He studied History, Economics and Sociology at the universities of Tübingen, Bielefeld and Oxford (St. Antony’s College).
https://www.soz.uni-heidelberg.de/centre-for-social-investment/
AnnaritaTrotta, PhD, is Full Professor of Banking and Finance at “University Magna Græcia” (UMG) of Catanzaro (Italy), where she currently teaches “Economics and Management of Financial Institutions and Markets”.
She holds a PhD in Business Administration from the University of Naples “Federico II” (Italy), where she was Assistant Professor of Banking (from 1995 to 2001). In 2001 she moved to the “Federico II” at UMG. She has taught several courses over the years, at both under graduate and graduate levels, including Banking, Financial Markets, Corporate Finance. She is a member of the Evaluation Unit of the LUM Jean Monnet University (Italy). She serves as a member of the editorial board and referee for many scientific journals.
Over her 25-year academic career, she has authored (or co-authored) more than 60 original scientific publications and 4 books. Her primary areas of research are: Social and sustainable finance; Impact Investing; Alternative finance and sustainability; Reputational risk and reputational crisis in the banking sector.
Currently, she is a research unit coordinator (2017-2020) of the Project “An Italian Platform for Impact Finance: financial models for social inclusion and sustainable welfare”, in collaboration with: Sapienza, University of Rome (Project Leader).
Email: trotta@unicz.it
Links:
http://www.diges.unicz.it/web/docenti/trotta-annarita/#1550740087246-61b0c866-75ee26e3-c813eb4f-90a0
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Annarita_Trotta
Karen Wendt is editor of the Sustainable Finance Series with Springer Science Publishing. She merges 20 years investment banking with social and green economy finance, leadership 4.0, design thinking and ideation. Her research interests are positive impact investing, theories of change, social stock exchanges, ecosystems, smart cities and blockchain. She also pioneers in extended methodologies in portfolio engineering, assessment based impact approaches, and value based decision making, Using academic research for applied science Karen advises on impact investing and Sustainable Development Goals Economics (SDG Economics) in her programme scaling4impact. Karen co-created the Equator Principles, the First Global Sustainability Standard in investment banking – based on impact assessments, creating mitigation strategies and impact action plans. She won the Financial Times Sustainability Award together with peers for this pioneering and created Responsible Investment Banking.
