Luigi Rizzo

Professor Luigi Rizzo is Vice Chairman of Investment Banking at Morgan Stanley, based in London.  

Prior to Morgan Stanley, he held leadership positions at Bank of America and Goldman Sachs.

At Bank of America, he was Head of Corporate & Investment Banking for the European Union (2018-2020), Head of Investment Banking for the EMEA region (2016-2020) and Head of EMEA Mergers & Acquisitions and Corporate Finance (2013-2016).  Before that, Professor Rizzo was a Partner at Goldman Sachs where he started his professional career as a financial analyst in 1993, becoming a Managing Director in 2004 and a Participating Managing Director in 2008. Over three decades of investment banking experience, he was associated with some of Europe’s largest and most complex corporate finance & M&A transactions.  

Professor Rizzo is a respected educator in the finance industry, in addition to his serving as Adjunct Professor of Business at Columbia Business School teaching “Advanced Corporate Finance” and (from Spring 2024) “Mergers & Acquisitions”.  He will also (from Summer 2024) be a Senior Visiting Teaching Fellow at Imperial College Business School (London) teaching “Mergers & Acquisitions” for the MSc Finance programme.  He is also a regular Guest Lecturer/Speaker at other Business Schools including: IMD (as part of the “Finance for Boards” and “Strategic Finance” programmes led by Prof. S. Cantale), Tuck at Dartmouth College (within the “Structuring Mergers & Acquisitions” course led by Prof. K. Thorburn), IE Business School (for the “Close the Deal” M&A competition led by Prof. P.  de l’Etraz), Norges Handelshøyskole (NHH) (for the Finance programmes led by Prof. K. Thorburn) and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (for the “Finance of Acquisitions and Buyouts” course led by Prof. B. Esmer and Prof. K. Thorburn).

He received an MSc in Business Engineering (cum laude) from Solvay Brussels School of Economics & Management (Belgium) in 1993.