Antonio Scalia

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Position

Head of the financial risk management directorate

Biography

Antonio Scalia is the Head of the Financial Risk Management Directorate at the Bank of Italy and a member of the ECB’s Risk Management Committee. He graduated magna cum laude in Economics at LUISS, Rome; he holds an M.Sc. in Economics from the LSE and a Ph.D. from the London Business School. He joined the Bank of Italy's Research Department as an Adviser in the Financial Markets Division. He was appointed as the Bank of Italy's representative in several missions with the IMF and working groups at the BIS. At the ECB, he was formerly a member of the Market Operations Committee. His research, published in leading academic journals, deals with prudential regulation and banks' behaviour, information asymmetry in financial markets, the Treasury bond market, and the effectiveness of foreign exchange intervention. In 2023 he published a book on Financial Risk Management and Climate Change Risk. The Experience in a Central Bank with Springer.