Giorgio Stefano BERTINETTI

Born in Milan on 22 May 1960, he graduated in Business Economics from the Luigi Bocconi University in Milan in 1984.

Since 2006, he has been a Full Professor of Corporate Finance at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, having previously served as an Associate Professor at the same university from 1998 to 2006 and as a Research Fellow at the Chair of Financial Functions at Bocconi University from 1990 to 1998.

Institutional appointments

From October 2020 to September 2026, he served as the Rector’s delegate for building works at Ca’ Foscari University.

Since November 2020, he has been a member of the Academic Board for the Master’s Degree Programme in Administration, Finance and Control.

From November 2014 to 2020, he served as Coordinator of the Academic Board for the Master’s Degree Programme in Administration, Finance and Control.

From 2013 to 2019, he was Director of the Risk, Sustainability and Corporate Performance Measures Laboratory, a research centre within the Department of Management at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.

From November 2009 to October 2014, he was Head of the Department of Management (formerly the Department of Economics and Business Management) at Ca’ Foscari University.

From September 2012 to September 2014, he was an elected member of the Academic Senate.

From April 2011 to August 2012, he was Chair of the Council of Department Heads and, in that capacity, a member of the Academic Senate.

He served as the Rector’s Delegate for Sport at Ca’ Foscari University and also 

Chair of the Sports Committee at the same university for the two-year period 2010–2011.

He served as Chair of the Academic Board for the Master’s Degree Programme in Administration, Finance and Control from April 2008 to December 2011.

He was a member of the Academic Board of the Bachelor’s Degree Programme in Economics and Finance at Ca’ Foscari University from its inception in the 2001–02 academic year until the 2013–14 academic year.

He was a member of the Academic Board of the School of Economics at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice from its establishment in the 2006–07 academic year until the 2011–12 academic year.

Academic activities

He is the course leader for ‘Corporate Financial Policy and M&A Strategies’, ‘Corporate Risk Management’ and ‘International Financial Management’ at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice; he has also previously been the course leader for ‘Corporate Finance’ and ‘Economics of Financial Intermediaries’.

In 2023, he served on the Scientific Committee of the 30th Annual Global Finance Conference, held in Treviso from 12 to 14 June.

Since 2018, he has been a member of the Strategic Steering Committee of the Venetian Green Building Cluster Regional Innovation Network (RIR), for which he coordinated a research project on financial innovation for the recovery of the property sector and on Covid-related risk in the property sector.

Since 2009, he has been a permanent member of the scientific committee of the International Risk Management Conference, which is organised annually in various countries around the world in collaboration with New York University and Prof. Edward Altman.

From 2020 to 2026, he was a member of the scientific committee of the *Journal of Credit and Capital Markets*, published by Dunker & Humblot.

From 2012 to 2020, he was a member of the scientific committee of the journal *Finanza Marketing e Produzione* published by Bocconi University, published by EGEA.

From 1995 to 2004, he was the coordinator responsible for the Corporate Finance section of the journal *Contabilità Finanza e Controllo*, published by *Il Sole24Ore*.

Lecturer at SAF Triveneta (School of Advanced Training for Chartered Accountants of the Triveneto region).

Lecturer at the CUOA Foundation, the University Centre for Business Organisation in Vicenza, where he teaches on the Master’s in Finance and the Master’s in Business Administration programmes, as well as on various other executive courses.

Lecturer at ESA (École Supérieure des Affaires), run in Beirut by ESCP Paris, where from 1997 to 2006 he taught an elective course on financial risk management.

Lecturer on the International Master’s in Economics and Finance at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, where until 2012 he delivered a series of lectures on business valuation.

Former lecturer at the SDA, Bocconi University’s School of Management, in the Corporate Finance and Real Estate Department, and held various teaching posts at the same university between 1988 and 2001.

He has coordinated numerous research projects, including, in the two-year period 2001–2002, the ‘Financial Communication and Enterprise Value’ project at CREA – Furio Cicogna, the Centre for Business Economics and Entrepreneurship Research at Bocconi University, a project in which numerous listed companies and other leading institutions participated.

He has served on the scientific committee of several international conferences and has spoken at numerous conferences in Italy and abroad.

He acts as a referee for several international scientific journals.

Publications

He is the author of numerous articles, essays and monographs, published by both national and international publishers.

He is also the author of articles that have appeared in the daily newspapers *Il Sole 24 Ore*, *La Repubblica* and *Corriere della Sera* – both in the national editions and, in the case of *Corriere della Sera*, in its *Nord-Est* supplement – aimed at both explaining research carried out and commenting on economic events and trends.

Professional Experience

Qualified as a Chartered Accountant, Statutory Auditor and Sustainability Auditor, he works as a consultant, primarily in the fields of financial analysis and planning, business valuation and M&A transactions.

He has served and continues to serve as chairman, a member of the board of directors, a statutory auditor and an external auditor at various companies, banks and asset management companies.