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Luigi Ballanti
Luigi Ballanti is CEO of Mefop, a company owned by the Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance and 90 pension funds whose aim is to develop the market of supplementary pension schemes.

Enrico Camerini
Enrico is the iShares Head of Institutional Clients in Italy.
Previously Enrico was Head of Italy for CS ETF. He joined Credit Suisse from UniCredit HVB, where he was Head of Italy of the ETF Advisory & Trading business. Before he worked for Banca IMI, where he contributed to the setup of the ETF market making business.
Enrico started his career in 1999, working as portfolio manager in Intesa Asset Management where in 2002 he was appointed head of pension funds portfolio management.
Enrico holds a degree cum laude in Economics at the University of Siena and he’s co-author of the book “Guida all’asset allocation – La gestione del portafolgio: strategica, tattica, dinamica”, wrote with professor Franco Caparrelli and published by ABI, the Italian banking association.

Giulio Castelli
Giulio Castelli is part of the Product Development team at STOXX Ltd.
He is responsible for developing a broad range of products, including volatility and derivatives based indices, strategy indices, on top of traditional indices.
Before joining STOXX Ltd. in August 2011, Giulio Castelli worked as a quantitative fund manager for Fideuram Asset Management Ireland. He began his career joining the structured products sales desks of major international organizations.
Giulio Castelli graduated in economics at the Bocconi university, specializing in quantitative methods and derivatives.

Martin de Sa'Pinto
Martin de Sa'Pinto has been a journalist for 18 years, most recently at Reuters, which he joined in 2006 as part of the HedgeWorld team. At Reuters he covered areas including financial markets, hedge funds and alternative investments, Private Banking and money-laundering. He recently joined Zürich-based Scalaris ECI, a company which investigates financial crime.

Aureliano Gentilini
Aureliano Gentilini serves as Managing Partner at PREVINVEST® since February 2013.
Aureliano Gentilini also sits on AIMA's (the Alternative Investment Management Association based in London) Hedge Fund Research Committee.
For the period September 2011-January 2013, Mr. Gentilini worked as Managing Partner at Mathema, advising E.N.P.A.F., the Italian pension plan of pharmacists.
Mathema provided unparalleled expertise, research, risk management, advice, and insight to pension funds and, more in general, the institutional investors' community.
Mathema's analysis and research focused on both traditional long-only investment vehicles and alternative investments.
In the past, Mr. Gentilini worked as Research Manager at Lipper, a Thomson Reuters company, for over 10 years until the end of August 2011, serving as Lipper's Global Head of Hedge Fund Research since January 2007.
He was responsible for Lipper research analyses on hedge funds globally, acting as a gatekeeper of hedge fund research methodologies and managing a team of research analysts.
Aureliano was the key spokesman on hedge funds, as well as mutual funds and ETFs, for Lipper, releasing commentary to media internationally.
Mr. Gentilini has previously acted as the European Head of Research at Lipper.
Prior to that, he worked as a Senior Economist at the Central Bank of Italy for about 10 years, conducting analyses of international financial flows. Mr. Gentilini holds a MSC in finance from the CASS Business School (London), a magna cum laude degree in Economics from Università La Sapienza in Rome (Italy) and is a registered auditor.

Elisabetta Giacomel
Professional Experience
12 years experience in the supervisory authority on pension funds (COVIP)
Since February 2013 - Head of the Financial and Actuarial Department
2001-2013 - Responsible for “Ufficio Tematiche Internazionali” in the Research Department
5 years experience in the financial industry
2001 - Pioneer Global Investment Management Sgr (Unicredito Group) - Economist
1998/2001 - Fondicri Sgr, now Bipielle Fondicri Sgr (Bipielle Group) - Investment Strategist
1997 /1998 - Caboto Sim (Intesa Group) - Economist
1996/1997 - Banca Akros - Economist
1995 – Banca Euromobiliare – stage
Education
1994 - Master in Economics at "Luigi Bocconi" University (Milan)
1993 - Degree in Applied Economics at “Cattolica del Sacro Cuore” University (Milan)

Rosa Anna Grimaldi
Rosa Anna Grimaldi leads the pension funds and consultant business globally for STOXX, DAX and SMI indices and is the main contact for sustainability indices.
She is responsible for the sale of licenses to financial institutions to issue related indexing products. Rosa Anna actively supports licensees' efforts to bring indices and index products closer to institutional and retail investors. She develops and maintains relationships with key clients in her markets to raise the profile of STOXX Ltd.
Before joining STOXX Ltd. in January 2001, Rosa Anna worked as a trader for various Italian banks.
She is also a researcher and member of the board of examiners for the chair of Modern and Contemporary History of America at the Faculty of Law of the University of Bari and a lecturer in Finance and Economic Development. She is also a member of the education and magazine commissions for ASSIOM/FOREX Italy.
Rosa Anna graduated in political science, specializing in international law and economics. She holds an M.A. in European Science, Society and Technology from Roskilde University in Copenhagen.

Luca La Venia
Luca La Venia has been working for Thomson Reuters since 1998; in the last 8 years he served in different roles in the Asset Management division.
He has joined the company as a Financial Analyst for the Group Finance Division.
He holds a Degree in Economics and Commerce from Catholic University of Milan (Italy - 1995) and was awarded a MA in Economics from Manchester University (England) in 1996.
Since 2001 he is a Chartered Management Accountant from the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (UK).

Giampiero Malagnino
Giampiero Malagnino was born on August 28, 1953 and he graduated and specialized in Perugia with honors in Odontostomatology in 1981.
He is an active member of S.I.E. (Italian Society of Endodontics) of whose executive he has been involved in two commissions.
He is also an active member of A.A.E. since 1983 and honorary member of the Société Française d’Endodontie.
He has been for two years an adjunct Professor of Endodontics in Tor Vergata’s degree course in Dentistry (Prof. Martignoni as President) and he has been teaching “Biomechanics of the root canal instrumentation” Endodontics School of Specialization at the University of Paris VII.
He has published original papers in French and American journals of Endodontics.
He has been congress spokesman in ANDI, ADF, SIE, SFE and AAE.
He has held more than 100 courses in theoretical and practical Endodontics.
He was the General Secretary and the President of ANDI, National Association of Italian Dentists; Vice President of the CIC, the Coordination Committee of Dentists Scientific Societies.
Appointed by the FNOMCeO, he has been a member of the National Committee for the Contninuing Medical Education (CME).
He has been a member of the ENPAM’s Real Estate Commission from 2000 to 2010.
Nowadays he is a member of ENPAM’s Advisory Committee of the Common Fund for closed real estate called “Q3”, starting from July 2011.
He is a member of the Commission for the evaluation of Unit Investment Asset called “UVIP”, from July 2011.
From April 2011 he is a Director in Enel Green Power S.p.A.
From April 2012 he is a member of the Fondo Ippocrate Advisory Committee, a closed type of Real Estate Investment Fund.
Currently he holds the position of ENPAM’s Vice President (for professions).

Mauro Marè
Mauro Marè is a Professor of Public Economics at Tuscia University, Viterbo – Italy. He is the Chairman of Mefop, a company owned by the Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance and 90 pension funds whose aim is to develop the market of supplementary pension schemes.
Prof. Marè is author of many books and publications on pensions and tax policy issues.

Ferenc Sanderson
Ferenc Sanderson serves as Managing Partner at PREVINVEST® since March 2013.
Previously, Mr. Sanderson was COO at Cranwood Capital Management, a hedge fund focusing on fixed income arbitrage from 2008-2013.
He was also CFO at ARA, a company specializing in project discovery, deal structuring and capital allocation services with a focus on Asian natural resources from 2010-2013.
In the past, Mr. Sanderson was Senior Research Analyst at Lipper, a Thomson Reuters company where he focused on multi-asset and hedge fund strategy research.
He was a Research Fellow attached to the Program on Alternative Investments at Columbia Business School in addition to stints with Daiwa Securities America, Hedgeworld, MCM Asia Pacific Co. PTE, Broadfax SA , Cargill and Merrill Lynch. Mr. Sanderson holds an MBA from Case Western Reserve University in finance and strategy, and a BSc.
Hons degree in Monetary Economics from The London School of Economics and Political Science.

Roberto Violi
Roberto Violi is currently a Senior Director in the Portfolio Management Department of the Bank of Italy. Assets under Management are around 250 billion euro in a number of portfolios including Bonds, Equities, FX, Gold and Commodities. He has published extensively on economic and financial markets issues in scholar as well as central banking reviews and books.
He has previously worked at the Research Department of the Bank of Italy (head of financial markets division) and was a Senior Economist at the European Department of the IMF in Washington (DC).
He has taught (as an adjunct professor) Finance and Risk Management subjects in several Graduate Master Programs at the University of Brescia and Rome (Tor-Vergata and LUISS).
He holds a DPHIL degree in Economics, Oxford University (UK).