Stefano Biondi

Group CRO at Banca Mediolanum

Speaker

After graduating from University of Pavia in 1997 with a Degree in Business and Economics, Mr. Biondi started to work as a junior risk manager for JP Morgan, first in Milan and then in London. Soon afterward he joined ABN AMRO Bank and subsequently moved to Amsterdam as senior credit risk manager in charge of trading counterparty credit risk management. During his 5 years stint at ABN AMRO Bank he also worked on the implementation of a bank-wide credit risk portfolio modelling system as well as a risk reporting tool. Following that experience at ABN AMRO he came back to London to accept a role as head of credit risk analytics and portfolio reporting at Standard Bank of South Africa in charge, among other things, of implementing the internal model for the Basel 2 FIRB project. In January 2007 he returned to Italy where he joined Banca Mediolanum as head of risk control with group-wide risk management responsibilities. In 2011 he undertook an Executive Master in Business and Banking Administration at Bocconi University. In 2014 he took, within Risk Management of Banca Mediolanum, the responsibility for quantitative modelling, reporting and group wide coordination. In April 2018 became head of risk management for Banca Mediolanum reporting to the Group CRO. In March 2020 became Group Chief Risk Officer for Banca Mediolanum.