Stefano Capodagli

Chief Risk Officer at Caribbean Development Bank

Speaker

Mr. Stefano Capodagli, a native of Italy, is the Chief Risk Officer (CRO) of the Caribbean Development Bank in Barbados.

Mr. Capodagli holds an International Executive MBA from Bocconi University School of Management, Milan (Italy and China), and anBA/MA degree in Finance and Banking from “La Sapienza”, University of Rome, Italy. Mr. Capodagli is a Certified Public Accountant and Internal Auditor and Certified Professional Coach and member of IRM UK and AIFIRM Italy.

Stefano has over 30 years of top management experience in risk, finance, development finance, and commercial and investment banking in Africa, Central Asia, Eastern, Southern and Western Europe, and the Caribbean. He performed finance and risk roles as Senior Finance Advisor to the VP CFO of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), and senior financial advisor to the Secretariat of the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States on EU-OACPS 11th EDF financial, risk and results management since 2020.

Previously, Stefano was appointed Group Chief Risk Officer at Hellenic Bank Group of Cyprus and led the risk management team at the time of Cyprus’ post-financial crisis recovery. He also served as CRO at the Bahrain-based Arab Banking Corporation’s Algerian subsidiary; and Chief Risk Reforms Officer within the newly created Group Chief Risk Officer Vice Presidency of the African Development Bank.

He has extensive experience as a motivational speaker, moderator and professional trainer for Banks, Insurance and Multilateral Development Bank (MDBs) in Risk Management, Development Finance, Banking.

Stefano is the author of several articles published in the UK, Italy and CEE on SME Finance, Development Finance, Banking and Risk management.Last of several articles published in the Journal of Sustainable Development: “Integrating ESG Principles and Risk Management: Enhancing Caribbean Resilience and Sustainability”. Article Link

He is fluent in English, French and Italian, with basic knowledge of Spanish and Ukrainian.