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Monica Defend
Head of Amundi Institute, Amundi
Monica Defend has been Head of the Amundi Institute since February 2022. Previous to that, Monica has been Global Head of Research, a member of the Global Investment Committee and the Advisory Board at Amundi since 2019. In her role, she contributes to the definition of Amundi’s investments strategy on financial markets. The team relies on a strong quantitative approach: it analyses the trends and fluctuations of financial markets in order to define short, medium and long term forecasts, highlighting the main investment themes. A distinctive feature of the team is the tight collaboration with the investment platforms for the generation of integrated investment ideas. She was previously Deputy Head of Group Research and member of the Global Investment Committee of Amundi since 2017. In her role, she contributes to defining Amundi’s investment strategy on financial markets. Prior to that, she was Global Head of Asset Allocation Research and previously Head of Quantitative Research at Pioneer Investments. Monica started her career in the investment industry in 1997 following a role as University assistant for the Advanced Econometrics department at Bocconi University. Monica holds a Masters degree in Economics (Bocconi University) and Financial Economics from the London Business School and Bocconi University. Furthermore, she was selected for the UniCredit Young Talents Program and the Management and Banking Academy, obtaining afterwards an MBA degree at the London Business School.
Giada Giani
Director in Citi Research's European Economics, Citi
Giada Giani is a Director in Citi Research's European Economics team covering the Mediterranean countries (Italy, Spain, Greece and Portugal). Giada joined Citi in 2009. She previously spent three years with Lehman Brothers in London, as an Economist focusing on the inflation market as well as covering the Italian economy. Prior to that, she spent four years as the Italian Economist at Banca Intesa in Milan, Italy. Giada holds a graduate degree from the Catholic University of Milan and an MSc degree from the University of York, UK.
Lucrezia Grasso
Senior Vice President of Business Development, MDOTM
Lucrezia Grasso is the Senior Vice President of Business Development at MDOTM Ltd., a global provider of AI-driven investment solutions for institutional investors. Since 2015, MDOTM's investment team of over 100 people across the company's offices in New York, London, and Milan has been supporting banks, insurance companies, asset & wealth managers in successfully integrating AI into their processes through its proprietary investment platform, Sphere. Lucrezia has over 10 years of experience in the asset management industry. Previously, she was a Director in the Hedge Fund & Real Money Rates Sales division at Citigroup, where she gained extensive knowledge of institutional clients and sophisticated quantitative investment strategies employed by large asset managers such as MAN Group, Brevan Howard, and Bridgewater Associates.
Alessandra Pasini
Co-Founder & President, Zhero
Alessandra Pasini is the Co-Founder & President of Zhero, an European and US new-energy company looking to develop, own and operate at-scale flagship low-cost renewable energy projects, hydrogen and derivatives, interconnections, energy storage and repurposing. Prior to that, between 2016 and 2022 Alessandra was CEO of Storage Business, CFO and Chief International and Business Development Officer at SNAM SpA, where she played a key role in SNAM’s repositioning from a pure infrastructure company into an energy transition leader with a global footprint (including its storage activities). Previously, she was Head of Investment Banking Italy at Barclays and worked at Citi and Kraft, managing M&A and IPOs in energy, infrastructure and telecommunication sectors. Alessandra is an independent board member of Italy’s largest online bank Fineco.
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