Oliviero Roggi
Oliviero Roggi specializes in corporate finance, valuation, risk management and corporate governance with a recent focus on Sustainable Finance and ESG Risk. He is currently Full Professor of Finance and Risk Management at Fundação Dom Cabral and tenured Professor of Finance at the University of Catania (Italy); Recently is responsible for the start-up project “ESG Finance and Risk at FDC and Chairman of The Risk Banking and Finance Society.
Roggi started his career at University of Florence remained until 2021 in different roles and responsibilities. From 2016 to 2019 Roggi served as Professor of Finance at Fundação Getulio Vargas EAESP in Sao Paulo (Brazil). Before to move to Brazil, he served as Visiting Associate Professor of Finance at NYU STERN School of Business in 2011-12. Oliviero is also Chairman of “The Risk Banking and Finance Society”. Prior joining NYU Stern, Prof. Roggi received his associate professorship tenure at the University of Florence teaching Advance Corporate Finance, Valuation and Corporate Capital Structure. From 2010 to 2013, Prof. Roggi was appointed Short Term Consultant at Environmental, Social and Governance Department IFC World Bank Group, where he led the European Team in the project “Risk Management for Board of Directors”. Professor Roggi is co-founder together with Prof. Edward Altman of the International Risk Management Conference managed by RBF. In recent years, RBF has become a reference point for practitioners and scholars’ actives in risk management worldwide with 800 members, two of them being Nobel Laureate.
Prior to joining the RBF, Dr. Roggi, founded and managed (from 2007-2009) as Chairman, Centro Studi per l‘Economia la Politica e la Finanza: Finanza Firenze. The association provides applied research services to prestigious institutions as Regione Toscana, Camera di Commercio di Firenze, Lucca, Arezzo. The association developed software tools for the SME credit rating and provided support to the bank research centers and other financial institutions. From 1994 Dr. Roggi is active on the field of advisory services in: corporate finance, valuation, corporate governance, and corporate strategy working as independent consultant with firms in a wide range of industries, including financial services, telecommunications, and retail. In 2009, he founded and owned up to 2011, Finanza Futura Srl, an advisory services company specialized in risk assessment, finance, and strategy advisory. In 2015 he founded two twin advisory services: Integrated Finance Consulting Srl, in italy and RBF Latam. Consultorias, Participações e Eventos Ltda in São Paulo. From 1995 and 1997 Dr. Roggi is as Certified Public Accountant, Independent Auditor and Board member in several publicly owned companies including the financial services. He is member of several associations and societies worldwide including ItalCam, Camara Italo-Brasileira de Comercio de São Paulo, Italian School of São Paulo, Eugenio Montale. Dr Roggi is fluent in five languages (Italian, English, Portuguese, French, Spanish).
