Gimede Gigante, nationally qualified as an associate professor in financial intermediaries' economics, serves as the Director of ICE - Innovation and Corporate Entrepreneurship at SDA Bocconi and is the director of the European Fs Tech Hub of Milan. He is also the program director of the International Management-China MiM degree at Università Bocconi, where he holds a tenured core faculty position in Financial Intermediaries' Economics within the Department of Finance.
He is the Director of the "Principles of International Finance" course in the Bachelor in International Economics and Finance (BIEF) program. Additionally, he serves as a lecturer in Financial Systems in the Master's Degree program in Business Administration and Management (CLEAM), Investment Banking in the Master's Degree program in Economics and Management of Financial Institutions and Markets (CLEFIN), and International Finance in the Master's Degree program in International Management (IM). Furthermore, he is a lecturer in Corporate Finance in the Bocconi China Master in International Management - Double Degree Program in Shanghai, in collaboration with Fudan University. He also holds the position of Academic Director of the Summer School (High School and Graduate Programs), Vice-Director of the Master of Science in Finance (CLEFIN), and Vice-Director of the Bachelor's Degree program in Economics and Finance (CLEF).
He carried out post-doctoral research activities first at the Salomon Center for the Study of Financial Institutions at New York University (Stern-NYU) and then at the Faculty of Economics of Columbia Business School. He is author of national and international articles and publications on Banking and Finance topics with several editors like Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Banking and Financial Institutions, Routledge, Bocconi University Press (BUP) ed Egea.
He has been member of the Board of Directors of ANSPC- National Association for the Study of Problems on Credit, corresponding academic of TMA-Turnoround Management Association Chapter of New York, member of the editorial board of the scientific journals International Journal of Economics, Finance and Management Sciences and Accounting and Finance Research. From 2016 to 2018 he was Economic Advisor to the Presidency of the Finance Committee of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Parliament for matters related to banks and financial intermediaries. Since 2020 he is Advisory Council Member of Harvard Business Review and since 2021 member of the national board of directors of Assofintech Association.
Chartered accountant and Auditor since 2011, he is a member of the Banking Commission and registered in the Register of Technical Consultants (civil sector) of the Court of Milan. He has held various positions as consultant of banks and he is supervisory board member of financial intermediaries and other companies (including for successful startups such as Casavo SPA). He has worked for leading financial and industrial groups (Unicredit Group, Eni Group) and he is currently an independent board director of a listed Italian bank and Chairman of the Advisory Board of an italian fintech company.
He graduated in Business Administration from Università Bocconi in Milan and obtained a PhD in Banking & Finance from University of Rome and the International Teaching Programme from SDA Bocconi in Milan. He is married with two daughters.
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