Valerio Poti

Valerio is Professor of Finance in the Business School of University College Dublin, where he is the Director of the Doctoral Studies Program and of the UCD Smurfit Centre for Doctoral Research. He also teaches Econometrics in the University of Bari in Italy. He was previously in Dublin City University, where was head of Economics, Finance and Entrepreneurship. He graduated in Banking and Finance from Bocconi University Milan, and gained a PhD in Finance from Trinity College Dublin while visiting the Finance department of New York University Stern Business School as an International Visiting Research Scholar. His research interests include asset pricing, performance attribution, market efficiency, behavioural finance, financial econometrics, corporate finance and SMEs financing and, more recently, digital finance and financial data science. His research has been published in International peer reviewed journals such as Management Science, the International Journal of Forecasting, the Journal of Banking and Finance, the Journal of International Money and Finance, the Journal of Business Ethics, European Financial Management, and he has contributed to practitioner-oriented books on portfolio and risk management. He is the Main Proposer and co-Chair of the H2020 COST Action "Fintech and Artificial Intelligence in Finance - Towards a transparent financial industry" (CA19130) and a funded principal investigator on the Coordination and Support Action “FIN-TECH: a knowledge exchange platform for FINancial TECHnology risk management”, which are two large-scale research projects on FinTech and Financial Data Science involving a very large network of universities, companies and regulators. He is a founding associate editor of the peer-reviewed scientific journal Digital Finance (Springer, https://www.springer.com/journal/42521). He also engages in consulting activities on risk and performance attribution and on issues related to the usage of derivatives to generate economic value. In the past, he taught International Finance at Queen's University Belfast and, before moving to academia, he worked as an equity option market maker on the Milan derivatives exchange and was the head of the Financial Engineering desk of the Dublin subsidiary of Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena.