He is member of the scientific committee of AIFIRM, the Italian Association of Financial Risk Managers, and of ABI Formazione, the education branch of the Italian Banking Association. He has been consulting and teaching in the field of finance and risk management, with particular focus on multivariate products and dependence, for more than ten years. Before joining the academia, he worked at the Economic Research Department of BCI (COMIT), an Italian bank, where he directed the Forecasting and Risk Measurement Methods Unit. He has published papers in finance and economics in international journasl and six books on topics of risk management and financial mathematics.