Dr Stefano Filomeni is a Lecturer in the Finance Group of Essex Business School (University of Essex, Colchester - UK). He is also an adjunct Senior Lecturer in the Finance Group of Aberdeen Business School (University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen - UK). After being awarded a Bachelor’s Degree (Business Administration) and a Master of Science (International Management) by Bocconi University (Milan, Italy), he pursued a challenging path that combined managerial experience in banking with a rigorous doctoral program. He felt that this combination would best prepare him to pursue his passion for an academic career in finance. On the one hand, before joining academia in 2017, he had worked for the Intesa Sanpaolo Banking Group since 2010 in both commercial (Intesa Sanpaolo) and investment banking (Banca IMI). Moreover, before joining Intesa Sanpaolo Group, he worked for UniCredit Group in the Corporate and Investment Banking Division. On the other hand, in March 2014 he was awarded a Ph.D. in Economic Sciences by the Polytechnic University of Marche (Faculty of Economics “Giorgio Fuà”, Ancona - Italy), with a specialization in empirical banking and finance. His biograpgy and a list of his published research can be found at biograpgy.