Faculty ...
Maurizio POMPELLA (Coordinator)
EuRun-BIS founder. Full Professor of Financial Intermediaries Economics at School of Economics and Management, University of Siena (Italy). Editor of the Palgrave Studies in Risk and Insurance. He has been teaching Banking, Finance, and Insurance at graduate and post-graduate level in Italy, Eastern Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, Russian Federation, and China.
Maurizio is currently Dean of the MSc in Economics and Management of Financial Intermediaries, at the University of Siena. His areas of expertise include Financial Intermediaries Economics, Insurance Economics, Structured Finance, Alternative Risk Transfer, Banking and Monetary Economics. Maurizio is a sailor / sailing instructor also, and participated in some of the most prestigious regattas of Mediterranean, such as the "Giraglia Rolex".
Roman MATOUSEK
Full Professor of Banking and Finance and Deputy Director of Kent Business School (UK), responsible for international collaboration and partnership. Member of Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) International Committee. Associate Editor, Journal of Banking and Finance. Roman served as Head of Research and Director of the Research Centre for EMEA Banking, Finance and Economics.
His research is predominantly focused on theoretical and empirical inquiry into issues of international banking, bank regulation, microeconomics of banking and monetary policy. Roman was a Visiting Research Fellow at London Business School, Birmingham University. He received a prestigious Pew Fellowship from Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, (USA). Roman was also a Visiting Professor at Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.
Lorenzo COSTANTINO
IDP European Consultants (Belgium), Senior Partner. MA in International Economics and Relations from the Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC (USA). Over 20 years of international experience in project financing and innovation. He serves as external expert for the European Commission on various aspects of Risk Finance and Alternative Finance for innovation: Chairman “Access to Risk Finance” Advisory Group of the European Commission (2013-2018).
Member of the Steering Committee of the EU Commission on “EU Investment in Venture Capital and Other Risk Capital Fund of Funds”; Member of the EU Commission’s Expert Group “Final Evaluation of the Fast Track to Innovation Pilot”; member of the EU Commission Expert Group to assess the Investment Potential of innovative SMEs. Previously worked as a Consultant for the Finance and Private Sector Development Unit of the World Bank, 2001-2015.