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Alessio Maria Pacces is Professor of Law and Finance at the Amsterdam Law School and the Amsterdam Business School at the University of Amsterdam, where he is Director of the Amsterdam Center for Law & Economics. He was former Director of the LL.M. in Law & Finance. Previously, he was a Professor of Law and Finance at the Erasmus School of Law. Before moving to academia, Alessio held senior and junior positions at Banca d’Italia, Consob, and Guardia di Finanza.

Alessio holds a PhD cum laude from the Erasmus University of Rotterdam (2008), a cum laude degree in economics from the LUISS University of Rome (1994) and the European Master in Law and Economics (Universities of Hamburg and Manchester, 1995), which was awarded with distinction and the first prize for the best thesis.

Alessio has taught several courses at the intersection between law and economics, including among others: Securities Regulation, Corporate Social Responsibility, Introduction to Law and Economics, Microeconomics for Lawyers, Economics of Financial Regulation, and Law and Economics in the Courts. Alessio had several visiting positions including, among others, at Berkeley Law School, Columbia Law School, the University of Haifa, and LUISS University in Rome.

Alessio's current research interests are in Sustainable Finance, Corporate Governance, Fintech, and the Economics of Financial Regulation. In these fields, he has published books, chapters and peer-reviewed articles and has been invited to speak by the OECD, the IMF, the ECB and the European Commission. His research was published in journals such as Harvard Business Law Review, American Business Law Journal, Sustainability, and International Review of Law and Economics, among others.

Alessio is a Research Member of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) and a Fellow Academic Member of the European Banking Institute (EBI). He is a former member of the Italian, European and the American Associations of Law and Economics. From 2014 until 2018 he was Director of the European Master of Law and Economics (EMLE).

Alessio is fluent in Italian and English, he reads French, and he is learning Dutch.

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