Research Fellow
Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies
Contact info
[email protected]
[+39] 055 4685 937
Office
Villa Raimondi, VR042
Working languages
Italian, English
Leonardo Giani is Research Fellow of the Florence School of Banking and Finance at the European University Institute. Leonardo holds a LL.M. (Columbia University, 2011), a PhD in law and economics (University of Siena, 2010), a postgraduate master’s degree in law and economics (University of Siena, 2008) and a master’s degree in law (Bocconi University, Milan, 2004). Leonardo was Visiting Scholar at the Boston University School of Law in 2007, he was Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute during the academic year 2011/2012 and Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Florence since July 2013 to March 2015. Leonardo worked at the European Central Bank for an overall period of fifteen months since 2007 to 2009, he practiced as an attorney at law since 2009 to 2015 (where compatible with academic activities), he worked as a legal and compliance expert in an investment bank from 2015 to 2019. Afterwards (2019-2022), he worked as a senior legal expert at the Italian Investment Management Association (Assogestioni). Leonardo has published articles on business law, banking law and bankruptcy law in Italian as well as in English.