Bio

Roberto Savona is Professor of Banking and Finance at the Department of Economics and Management, University of Brescia, Italy. 

After receiving his Ph.D. in Financial Intermediation from University of Udine – Italy (2002), he was visiting at the Haas School of Business at the University of California - Berkeley, Carroll School of Management at the Boston College, Department of Statistics at the University of California - Berkeley, and European Central Bank.

He served as a member of the Board of Directors of the European Financial Management Association (EFMA) 2010-2013, and as a Member of the Steering Committee of Macroprudential Research Network (MaRs) – European Central Bank 2012-2014.

He was Primary Coordinator of European Project “SYRTO - SYstemic Risk TOmography: Signals, Measurements, Transmission Channels, and Policy Interventions” funded under FP7- SSH/2007-2013 program (www.syrtoproject.eu).

His research has appeared in finance and economics journals, such as Annals of Finance, European Journal of Finance, European Journal of Operational Research, Journal of Financial Econometrics, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, PLoS ONE, Quantitative Finance. 

He is currently an academic editor of Artificial Intelligence in Finance, Journal of Risk and Financial Management.

He is founder and President of the University spin-off SYRTO S.r.l. (University of Brescia & Cà Foscari University of Venice).

(www.syrto.eu).