Biography
Loriana Pelizzon is Deputy Scientific Director, Department Director of Financial Markets and Coordinator of Gender Equality at the Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE, as well as a professor at Goethe University Frankfurt, where she is Chair of Law and Finance. She is also a part-time professor of economics at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and a research affiliate at MIT Sloan and an affiliate of the Wells Fargo Advisors Center for Finance and Accounting Research at the Olin Business School, Washington University, St. Louis, United States. She graduated from London Business School with a doctorate in finance.
She was one of the coordinators of the European Finance Association (EFA) Doctoral Tutorial, a member of the EFA's Executive Committee, and a member of the BSI GAMMA Foundation Board. She has been involved in National Bureau of Economic Research and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation projects, as well as EU projects, including in affiliation with Europlace and Inquire Europe, the Einaudi Institute of Economics and Finance, the Banque de France, the Italian Ministry of Education, the German Research Foundation and the Volkswagen Foundation. She was a member of the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority’s Insurance and Reinsurance Stakeholder Group and is currently Co-Vice-Chair of the Advisory Scientific Committee of the European Systemic Risk Board, a research fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research, and a member of the EU's independent expert advice team in the field of banking union. She is also an external expert for the European Commission on digital currency and blockchain technology.
Her research interests are risk measurement and management, hedge funds, market microstructure, financial institutions, systemic risk, sovereign risk and financial crises.