Andrea Sironi

Andrea Sironi was born on 13 May 1964 in Milan, Italy. He graduated from Bocconi University with a degree in economics. After graduating he moved to London where he worked as a financial analyst at The Chase Manhattan Bank, now JP Morgan Chase.

In 1990 he returned to Italy and began teaching at Bocconi, where he is currently Full Professor of Banking and Finance. In 1993, he was a visiting scholar at the Department of Finance of the Stern School of Business at New York University for one semester.

He was a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve in Washington, D.C. in 2000; in the same year he became director of the Claudio Dematté Research Division of SDA Bocconi, a role he would hold until 2006. In 2004 he has been Dean of the Graduate School for one year.

From 2005 to November 2008, Sironi held the position of Dean for Internationalization in Bocconi University, where he also served as Rector from 2012 to 2016, when he was succeeded by Gianmario Verona. During this time, he encouraged faculty to publish research in English rather than Italian, and he promoted social mobility by waiving tuition for underprivileged students. Sironi also served as the chairman of the Global Alliance in Management Education from 2014 to 2016.

In 2017 he was appointed as a member of the group of experts that assessed the value of the capital shares of the Bank of Italy.

In 2018 he was visiting professor at the economics department of Sciences Po in Paris. As an academic, Sironi carries out research on financial risk management, regulation and international supervision of financial institutions. Since 1 November 2022 he has been president of Bocconi University.

Sironi is passionate about sailing (he crossed the Atlantic Ocean twice) and swimming (in 2018 he won two bronze medals at the World Transplant Games). He is married, and he has three children.