Francesca Cornelli

Francesca Cornelli is currently the Director at Edizione SpA, Lyric Opera of Chicago, and Civic Consulting Alliance.
She is also the Director at Coller Institute of Private Equity since 2009, Independent Director at GCM Grosvenor, Inc. since 2020, and Independent Director at Ryan Specialty Holdings, Inc. starting in 2023.
Additionally, she serves as a Member-Academic Board at European School of Management & Technology GmbH.
Dr. Cornelli was previously the Independent Director at Telecom Italia SpA from 2014 to 2018, Director at Telecom Italia Mobile SpA, Independent Non-Executive Director at CIR SpA - Cie Industriali Riunite, and Independent Director at Intesa Sanpaolo.
SpA from 2016 to 2019.
She also held the position of Director at American Finance Association from 2013 to 2016, Director at Swiss Re Europe SA, Swiss Re International SE, and Swiss Re Europe Holdings SA from 2013 to 2019.
Prior to that, she was a Professor & Deputy Dean at London Business School from 1994 to 2019 and a Council Member at European Economic Association from 2002 to 2007.
Dr. Cornelli obtained her graduate and doctorate degrees from Harvard University in 1992 and her undergraduate degree from the University of Bocconi in 1987.