Professor Valerio Potì
Academic Director of the UCD College of Business Doctoral Program and Doctoral Research Centre.
Valerio is Professor of Finance in the School of Business of University College Dublin, where he teaches portfolio and risk management and Banking & Finance, and he is the Academic Director of the College of Business doctoral program and Doctoral Research Centre. He was previously in Dublin City University, where he 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, spending the last year of his doctoral studies at the Finance department of New York University Stern Business School as an International Visiting Research Scholar.
His research interests include asset pricing, corporate finance and SMEs financing, commodity markets, financial econometrics and financial data science, forecasting, and digital finance. His research has been published in international peer reviewed journals such as Management Science, the Journal of Banking and Finance, the Journal of International Money and Finance, the Journal of Business Ethics, the International Journal of Forecasting, Quantitative Finance. He was 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”, 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.
He has held visiting and adjunct appointments at the European University Institute, New York University Stern School of Business, Nazarbayev University Graduate School of Business, Cattolica University at Piacenza, the University of Bari. 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.