Oliviero Roggi specializes in corporate finance, valuation, risk management and governance particularly for SMEs and private enterprises. He is currently Research Visiting Professor at Fundação Getulio Vargas, Instituto de Finanças in Sao Paulo (Brazil) where is responsible for a research center on “Country and Corporate Risk in Emerging Markets”. Before 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, Company Valuation and Corporate Capital Structure. From 2010 to now, Prof. Roggi has being 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 and in 2010 he also founded “The Risk Banking and Finance Society”. RBF has become a reference point for practitioners and scholars actives in risk management worldwide. 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 also 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 2015, he founded and financed, IFC Consulting Srls in Italy, an RBF Latam Ltda (Brazil) both advisory services companies specialized in risk assessment, finance and strategy advisory. 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. Dr Roggi is fluent in five languages (Italian, English, Portuguese, French, Spanish).
