Luigi Rizzo
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Professor Luigi Rizzo is Vice Chair of Investment Banking at Morgan Stanley, based in London (UK).
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, became a Managing Director in 2004 and a Participating Managing Director in 2008.
In addition to his serving as Adjunct Professor of Business at Columbia Business School, he is also a Professor of Practice at Imperial Business School (Imperial | London, UK) and a regular guest lecturer at other leading business schools, both in Europe and in the USA.
Professor Rizzo received a BA (1991) and MA (1993) in Business Engineering cum laude from Solvay Brussels School of Economics & Management (Université Libre de Bruxelles | Brussels, Belgium) and is currently a part-time PhD student, within the Faculty of English, at the University of Cambridge (London, UK).