Francesca Cornelli - Telecom Italia Independent Director

Ms. Francesca Cornelli serves as Independent Director at Telecom Italia S.p.A. since July 2016. On April 16, 2014, she became a member of the current Board of Directors of Telecom Italia S.p.A. and is member of the Control and Risk Committee. She is Professor of Finance at London Business School. She is the Director of the Coller Institute of Private Equity, a research institute of the London Business School. She previously held positions or taught at the Wharton School, the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University, The London School of Economics, the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad and the New Economic School in Moscow. Her interests include corporate governance, private equity, privatization, bankruptcy, IPOs and innovation policy. Her latest publications concern a research on short sales, manager incentives, a research regarding the impact of investments from private equity companies on the board and another one concerning the importance of increasing transparency in the companies and its effects on the manager incentives. She has published several papers in the major finance and economic journals and she gives regular talks in major conferences and Universities and international institutions. She is director of the American Finance Association, a member of the Scientific Committee of the Banque de France Foundation, and a Research Fellow of the Center for Economic and Policy . She is an editor of the Review of Financial Studies, and she was an associate editor of the Journal of Finance, of the Journal of Financial Intermediations and of the Review of Economic Studies. She is a member of the board of Cofide, Swiss Re Europe, Swiss Re International and Telecom Italia. She obtained her B.A. at Universita Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, in Milano, Italy, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics at Harvard University, USA. since 2016.