Generali will become a strategic partner of the Luigi Bocconi University of Milan thanks to the agreement signed on Monday morning which establishes the Generali Group Chair in Insurance and Risk Management.
The chair, which will be entrusted to full professor of the Department of Finance Stefano Rossi, was presented with a lectio inauguralis, during which an innovative approach to corporate risk management was outlined, to be understood not only as a hedge of financial risks but also , and above all, how to manage the company's operational risks.
Among the speakers, the Group CEO of Assicurazioni Generali, Philippe Donnet, the president of Bocconi, Mario Monti, the Group CFO of Assicurazioni Generali, Luigi Lubelli and Franklin Allen, professor of finance and economics at Imperial College London.
“The partnership between Bocconi and a large insurance group, which boasts a presence in more than 60 countries around the world, will bring advantages to both – said the rector of the University, Gianmario Verona -. We will have the opportunity to conduct high-quality research on the insurance world, which is undergoing important changes in the fintech era, and we will be able to feed the knowledge of our students, also thanks to the active involvement of the Generali Group in the classroom".
“Generali has supported Bocconi University for over twenty years, a collaboration that has been enriched over time and which today sees a further stage. The insurance sector has profound interrelationships with the major contemporary issues and faces ever new challenges every day: the partnership with Bocconi University is an important contribution to studying, analyzing and managing them", said the Group CEO of Assicurazioni Generali, Philippe Donnet .
The agreement provides for the naming of the Chair for five years, during which teaching and research activities will be carried out, aimed at participating in the scientific debate on the insurance-financial topic through international research and publications, the organization of meetings, seminars and workshops and other forms of collaboration.
The holder of the new Chair, Stefano Rossi, he has taught at the Stockholm School of Economics, Cornell University, Imperial College Business School and Purdue University. His main research interests are the relationship between legislation and finance, corporate governance, corporate financial crises.
