100 Notable alumni of Bocconi University

Annamaria Lusardi is an Italian-born economist and the Denit Trust Distinguished Scholar and Professor of Economics and Accountancy at Stanford University School of Business. In 2011 she founded and serves as the Academic Director of the Global Financial Literacy Excellence Center. Her interests focus on financial literacy and financial education. As of early 2025, she was also a non-resident fellow...

Eduardo Missoni is an Italian medical doctor who has been active in numerous social causes. He was appointed as the Secretary General of the World Organization of the Scout Movement from April 1, 2004 through November 30, 2007.

Giordano Dell'Amore was an Italian economist and banker.

Roberto Nicastro, an Italian banker and Fintech Investor, senior advisor for Cerberus Capital, and Chairman of AideXa, a challenger bank project aiming to serve small businesses. Previously he was the Chairman of the "Good Banks" on behalf of Bank of Italy and was the Group General Manager of Unicredit; in the past, he worked with McKinsey & Co and Salomon...

Marco Patuano is an Italian economist, manager and President of A2A.

Naike Gruppioni is an Italian politician, serving as a deputy since 13 October 2022.

Alicia Garcia Herrero is a Spanish economist and academic based in Hong Kong. She has been the chief economist for Asia-Pacific at French investment bank Natixis and adjunct Professor at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology since June 2015. She is also an adjunct professor at Sunyatsen University and has recently joined insurance company AGEAS as an independent board...

Elio Zagato was an Italian automobile designer.

Oriana Bandiera, FBA is an Italian development economist and academic, who is currently the Sir Anthony Atkinson Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics. Her research focuses on development, labour, and organisational economics. Outside of her academic appointment, she is co-editor of Econometrica, and an affiliate of the Centre for Economic Policy Research and Bureau for Research and...

Eleonora Anna Giorgi is an Italian race walker bronze medal at the 2019 World Athletics Championships. She competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics, in 20 km walk.

Nandini Jammi is an American activist and brand safety consultant. She is a co-founder of the Check My Ads agency and associated non-profit Check My Ads Institute. Previously, she co-founded Sleeping Giants. She informs businesses about their advertisements that appear on conservative websites that she describes as bad faith publishers—websites that publish misinformation or conspiracy theories, or engage in advertising...

Primavera De Filippi is a French legal scholar, Internet activist and artist, whose work focuses on the blockchain, peer production communities and copyright law. She is a permanent researcher at the CNRS and Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. She is the author of the book Blockchain and the Law published by...

Lucio Stanca is an Italian politician. He was Minister for Innovation and Technologies in the second and third Berlusconi cabinet, and later CEO of the Expo 2015 SpA.

Roberto Tremelloni was an Italian economist, academic, businessman and social democratic politician. He served in various cabinet posts.

Franco Tentorio is an Italian politician.

Steven Goldstein is a Colombian racing driver.

Marina Brogi is an Italian economist, Full Professor of Banking and Capital Markets at Sapienza University of Rome, author of numerous publications on corporate governance, banking and capital markets.

Raffaele Jerusalmi is an Italian executive and CEO of Borsa Italiana S.p.A.

Mario Biondi is an Italian writer, poet, literary critic, journalist and translator. His reputation is mainly due to the novel Gli occhi di una donna, which earned him the important Italian award Premio Campiello in 1985. He has a keen interest in Central Asia and Tibetan history and culture, and in recent years has travelled all of the Silk Road...

George Biagi is a retired Italy international rugby union. He represented Italy on 23 occasions. He was born in Scotland to Scots/Italian father and an Italian mother and later went to Italy to study. He has stated he has equal allegiance to both countries.

Giuseppe Eugenio Luraghi was an Italian automobile executive, mechanical engineer, writer and poet. He is mostly known for his association with Alfa Romeo, where he was president.

Grazia Francescato is an Italian politician, journalist and activist.

Matilda Koen-Sarano was an Italian-born Israeli writer. Born to Turkish Jewish parents, she was one of the most widely known writers in the Ladino language.

Marco Zullo is an Italian politician who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 2014. He was re-elected in 2019. From 2014 to 2021, he was part of the Five Star Movement.

Paolo Perrone is an Italian politician.

Massimo Tononi is an Italian banker and politician. Chairman of Banco BPM.

Antonio Marcegaglia is an Italian business executive who is the Chairman and CEO of steel manufacturer Marcegaglia.

Andrea Enria an Italian economist who served as Chair of the ECB Supervisory Board from 2019 to 2023. He previously served as the chairperson of the European Banking Authority (EBA) between 2011 and 2019.

Alberto Alemanno is an Italian academic, author, public interest lawyer, and civic entrepreneur. He is Jean Monnet Professor in European Union Law at HEC Paris since 2009, permanent Visiting Professor at the University of Tokyo, School of Public Policy, and at the College of Europe in Bruges. In 2024/25 he is a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University Minda de Gunzburg...

Enrico La Loggia is an Italian politician, former Minister of Regional Affairs from 2001 to 2006.

Teresa Cremisi is an Egyptian-born Italian publisher and writer. She was born in Alexandria, where she attended the French Catholic boarding school Notre-Dame de Sion d'Alexandrie. She left Egypt with her family after the Suez Crisis of 1956. The family settled in Milan, and Teresa took a degree in foreign languages and literature at Bocconi University.

Alessandro Canelli is an Italian politician.

Claudio Costamagna is an Italian banker and businessman. He was chairman of Cassa Depositi e Prestiti from July 2015 to July 2018.

Patrizia Toia is an Italian politician and member of the European Parliament for North-West with Democratic Party, part of the group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats.

Ugo Cappellacci is an Italian Sardinian politician and member of the Forza Italia (FI) political party. Cappellacci, a center-right politician, was elected President of Sardinia in the 2009 regional election, held in February 2009, with 51.9% of the vote, ousting the incumbent left-wing coalition led by Renato Soru, who garnered 42.89%. He took office as President on 27 February 2009....

Piero Pirelli, born Piero Carlo Pirelli,, was an Italian entrepreneur and the son of Giovanni Battista Pirelli, the founder of Pirelli.

Benedetta Scuderi is an Italian politician of Green Europe who was elected member of the European Parliament in 2024. She has served as co-spokesperson of the Federation of Young European Greens from 2022 to 2024.

Paolo Baffi was an Italian academic, banker, and economist. He was the Governor of Bank of Italy from 1975 to 1979.

Francesco Laforgia is an Italian academic and politician.

Giorgio Starace is an Italian diplomat; he is the current ambassador to the Russian Federation. Earlier in his career, he was ambassador to Japan and to the United Arab Emirates.

Alberto Bonisoli is an Italian politician.

Jörg Asmussen is a German economist and politician who served as State Secretary of the Federal Ministry of Finance from 2008 to 2011 and Parliamentary State Secretary for the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs from 2014 to 2016. He has been serving as Chief Executive Officer of the German Insurance Association (GDV) since 2020.

Carla Sozzani is an Italian book and magazine editor, gallerist, and businesswoman. She founded the Galleria Carla Sozzani in 1989 and is the creator of 10 Corso Como, an art and fashion establishment in Milan.

Antonio Misiani is an Italian politician. He was Deputy Minister of Economy and Finance in the Conte II Cabinet.

Vittorio Grilli is an Italian economist and academic. He was Italy's minister of economy and finance from 2012 to 2013 as part of the Monti cabinet.

Andrea Sironi is an Italian academic. He is a Professor of Banking and Finance at Bocconi University, where he was the Rector from 2012 to 2016, and has been the President since 2022. He also serves as chairman of Assicurazioni Generali and Fondazione AIRC per la Ricerca sul Cancro.

Barbara Pollastrini is an Italian politician and university professor.

Carlo Tognoli was an Italian politician who was mayor of Milan and minister of the First Italian Republic.

Francesco Milleri is an Italian businessman who has been the CEO of EssilorLuxottica since June 2022. He is also the father of Italian-American DJ and record producer Matteo Milleri.

Massimo Garavaglia is an Italian politician who served as Minister of Tourism in the Draghi Cabinet.

Giovanni Arrighi was an Italian economist, sociologist and world-systems analyst, from 1998 a Professor of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University. His work has been translated into over fifteen languages.

Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, OMRI was an Italian banker and economist who served as Italy's Minister of Economy and Finance from 2006 to 2008. He previously served as a member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank from 1998 to 2005. Padoa-Schioppa is considered as a founding father of the European single currency. He was a former member of the...

Paolo Monti was an Italian photographer known for his architectural photography.

Teresa de Lauretis was an Italian author and academic who was a Distinguished Professor Emerita of the History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her areas of interest included semiotics, psychoanalysis, film theory, literary theory, feminism, women's studies, lesbian and queer studies. She also wrote on science fiction. Fluent in English and Italian, she wrote in both...

Carlo Scognamiglio Pasini is an Italian economist and politician. He is a university professor in applied economics, and was Chancellor of the LUISS University of Rome (1984–1992). He was President of the Italian Senate from 1994 to 1996 and Minister of Defence from 1998 to 2000.

Fabrizio Saccomanni was an Italian economist, civil servant and the director general of the Bank of Italy. He served as minister of economy and finance between April 2013 and February 2014. From 13 April 2018 until his death, Saccomanni was the chairman of UniCredit.

Silvia Serafina Sardone is an Italian politician and a Member of the European Parliament since 2019. She is the deputy secretary of Lega, a right-wing populist political party in Italy.

Irene Tinagli is an Italian politician and economist. She has served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 2019. During the Ninth European Parliament (2019-2024), she was chair of the European Parliament Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs.

Lara Comi is an Italian politician, member of the European Parliament from 2009 to 2019, and again since 2022.

Renato Soru is an Italian politician and entrepreneur. He is the founder of the internet service company Tiscali, based in Cagliari. Forbes listed Soru as one of the world's richest people, with a net worth of over $4 billion as of September 2001.

Stefano Fassina is an Italian economist and politician. He is a former member of the Chamber of Deputies and of Italy's Democratic Party. Since 2018, he is the leader of the left-wing political association Fatherland and Constitution.

Luigi Zingales is an Italian economist who is a finance professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. His book Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists (2003) is a study of "relationship capitalism". In A Capitalism for the People: Recapturing the Lost Genius of American Prosperity (2012), Zingales "suggests that channeling populist anger can reinvigorate the power of competition...

Alberto Francesco Alesina was an Italian economist who was the Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University from 2003 until his death in 2020. He was known principally as an economist of politics and culture, and was famed for his usage of economic tools to study social and political issues. He was described as having “almost single-handedly” established...

Emma Marcegaglia is an Italian entrepreneur. She was president of Confindustria from 2008 to 2012, and president of the Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli from 2010 to 2019. From 2014 to 2020 she was president of Eni.

Tito Michele Boeri is an Italian economist, currently professor of economics at Bocconi University, Milan and acts as Scientific Director of the Fondazione Rodolfo Debenedetti.

Fernando Dalla Chiesa is an Italian academic and politician, honorary president of Libera, former deputy and senator.

Alessandro Profumo is an Italian business executive, and a former CEO of Leonardo S.p.A..

Benedetto Della Vedova is an Italian politician.

Marco Zanni is an Italian politician who presided over the Identity and Democracy (ID) group in the European Parliament between 2019 and 2024. He has served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 2014, first elected as a member of the Five Star Movement, then reelected for the League in 2019.

Corrado Passera is an Italian manager and banker, who has served as Minister of Economic Development and Infrastructure and Transport in the Mario Monti Cabinet.

Riccardo Silva is an Italian businessman. He is the owner of Silva International Investments, which has investments in a range of companies across media, sports, entertainment, art, and real estate. He is also a co-owner of AC Milan, president and co-owner of Miami FC, owner of the Silva family art collection, and was CEO of the Milan Channel.

Salvatore Aranzulla is an Italian blogger and entrepreneur. He is a well-known popularizer and author of problem solving tutorials for information technology (especially software) by the general Italian public.

Philippe Daverio was an Italian art historian, gallerist, teacher, writer, author, politician, and television personality.

Flavio Cattaneo is an Italian manager and entrepreneur. Since 2023, he has been CEO and General Manager of Enel and vice chair of Endesa. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of Assicurazioni Generali.

Chiara Appendino is an Italian politician and sports manager, mayor of Turin and the Turin metropolitan city from 30 June 2016 to 27 October 2021 and vice president of the Italian Tennis Federation from 2 October 2020. She is a member of the Five Star Movement (M5S).

Vittorio Amedeo Colao is an Italian manager who served as Minister for Technological Innovation and Digital Transition in the government of Prime Minister Mario Draghi from 2021 to 2022. From 2008 until 2018, he was the chief executive officer at Vodafone Group.

Luca de Meo is an Italian chief executive, CEO of luxury group Kering since 2025. He was previously CEO of the group Renault (2020-2025), CEO of SEAT (2015-2020), and CEO of Fiat Automobiles (2004-2009). He revived the iconic Fiat 500, created SEAT's premium brand Cupra, and turned Renault into a global electric vehicles manufacturer.

Marco Cappato is an Italian activist and politician. Cappato was an Italian Member of the European Parliament from 1999 to 2009. He represented the Bonino List within the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe parliamentary group. He was member of the Foreign Affairs, Civil Liberties, and Human Rights committees. He also served as a vice-president of the European Parliament...

Giuseppe "Beppe" Sala is an Italian manager and politician, currently mayor of Milan. He was CEO of Expo 2015 in Milan from 2010 to 2015. He became mayor of Milan in 2016, supported by the centre-left coalition, and he was confirmed for a second term in the 2021 municipal election.

Urbano Cairo is an Italian businessman and media proprietor.

Cecilia Sala is an Italian journalist, specialized in political and war journalism, both as author and war correspondent.

Nouriel Roubini is an American economic consultant, economist, speaker, and writer. He is a professor emeritus since 2021 at the Stern School of Business of New York University. Roubini earned a BA in political economics at Bocconi University in Italy and a doctorate in international economics at Harvard University. He was an academic at Yale and a researcher/advisor researching emerging...

Marco Tronchetti Provera is an Italian businessman. He formerly served as the CEO of the Italian tire manufacturer Pirelli & C. from 1992 to 2022, where he continues to serve as executive vice chairman.

Nina Seničar is a Serbian actress and model based in Los Angeles. She has appeared in Hollywood movies such as Papillon (2017) and Mayhem (2017), as well as numerous Italian film and television productions.

Francesco Boccia is an Italian academic and politician of the Democratic Party (PD) who served as Minister of Regional Affairs and Autonomies in the government of Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte.

Giancarlo Giorgetti is an Italian politician and prominent member of the League, of which he became deputy secretary in 2016. Since October 2022, Giorgetti has served as Minister of Economy and Finance in the government of Giorgia Meloni. Previously, he was Secretary of the Council of Ministers from June 2018 until September 2019, in the government of Giuseppe Conte and...

Paolo Scaroni is an Italian businessman and banker, currently the chairman of Enel and A.C. Milan. Between 2002 and 2014 he was the CEO (chief executive officer) of Italian energy companies Enel and Eni.

Aimone of Savoy-Aosta, 6th Duke of Aosta is an Italian businessman and one of two claimants to be head of the House of Savoy. Since November 2019, he has served as the Ambassador of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta to Russia.

Roberto Calvi was an Italian banker, dubbed "God's Banker" (Italian: Banchiere di Dio) by the press because of his close business dealings with the Holy See. He was a native of Milan and was chairman of Banco Ambrosiano, which collapsed in one of Italy's biggest political scandals.

Emma Bonino OMRI, CdrLH is an Italian politician. She was a senator for Rome between 2008 and 2013, and again between 2018 and 2022. She also served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2013 to 2014. Previously, she was a Member of the European Parliament and a member of the Chamber of Deputies. She served in the government of Italy...

Daniela Garnero, commonly known by her former married name as Daniela Santanchè ( Italian pronunciation: [daˈnjɛːla santaŋˈkɛ]), is an Italian politician. Between 2010 and 2011 she served as Undersecretary to the Ministry for the Implementation of the Government Program in the Berlusconi IV Cabinet. She is currently the regional coordinator of Brothers of Italy in Lombardy and the Minister of...

Luigi Numa Lorenzo Einaudi was an Italian politician, economist and banker who served as the president of Italy from 1948 to 1955 and is considered one of the founding fathers of the Italian Republic.

Chiara Ferragni is an Italian blogger and influencer. Since 2021, Ferragni has been the center of controversy as the protagonist of the Pandorogate fraud scandal in which she profited millions of euros while claiming to be raising funds for charity.

Andrea Agnelli is an Italian businessman. From May 2010 to November 2022, Agnelli served as chairman of Italian association football club Juventus, which returned to Italian football dominance throughout the 2010s with nine consecutive record-breaking Serie A titles, along with four consecutive national doubles and one domestic treble. Under Agnelli's presidency, Juventus also returned to European competitiveness, reaching one UEFA...

Mario Monti OMRI is an Italian politician, economist and academic who served as the prime minister of Italy from 2011 to 2013, leading a technocratic government in the wake of the Italian debt crisis.

Donna Beatrice Borromeo Arese Taverna is an Italian journalist, model, and aristocrat. Born into the aristocratic Borromeo family, she studied law at Bocconi University in 2010 before earning a master's degree in journalism at Columbia University in 2012. Borromeo subsequently worked for il Fatto Quotidiano before becoming a columnist for Newsweek and Daily Beast in 2013. She also worked as...

Antonio A. Casilli is a Professor of Sociology at Télécom Paris, the school of telecommunications engineering of the Polytechnic Institute of Paris, and an Associate Researcher at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences. His research focuses on computer-mediated communication, labour, and fundamental rights. He has been a regular commentator at La Grande Table and Place de la...

Claudiu-Iulius-Gavril Năsui is a Romanian politician and classical liberal economist.

Pierre Rainier Stefano Casiraghi is the younger son and youngest of three children of Caroline, Princess of Hanover, and her second husband, Stefano Casiraghi. He is the maternal-line grandson of Rainier III, Prince of Monaco, and American actress Grace Kelly. Casiraghi is eighth in the line of succession to the Monegasque throne, following his twin cousins Hereditary Prince Jacques and...