Luigi Rizzo

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

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 the EMEA region’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, he is also an Adjunct Professor of Practice at Imperial (Imperial College Business School in London, United Kingdom) where he teaches “Mergers & Acquisitions”.  He is also a regular guest lecturer/speaker at other business schools including: IMD (Lausanne, Switzerland), Tuck at Dartmouth College, IE Business School (Madrid, Spain), NHH Norwegian School of Economics (Bergen, Norway), the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and Cambridge Judge Business School (Cambridge, United Kingdom).

He received a BA and MA in Business Engineering (cum laude) from Solvay Brussels School of Economics & Management (Belgium) in 1993.