Dante Roscini

After a two-decades-long career in finance, Dante joined the Harvard Business School faculty in 2008. He is a member of the Business, Government, and the International Economy Unit. He teaches the second year elective course Managing International Trade and Investment. He was awarded the L.E. Simmons Fellowship for outstanding professor coming from practice in 2012.

His publications relate to sovereign debt, monetary policy, central banking, and international investment. His work concentrates on the politics, institutions, and macroeconomics of a country’s development, fiscal and monetary policies, the management of international trade, foreign direct investment, international portfolio investment, and frameworks for risk assessment and mitigation by agents that invest and trade transnationally.

Before coming to HBS Prof. Roscini spent twenty years in senior positions at three leading US investment banks in New York and London where he ran large, global businesses. He was a Managing Director and Head of European Capital Markets for Goldman Sachs, Head of Global Equity Capital Markets and Head of the European Capital Markets and Financing Group for Merrill Lynch where he was also a member of the Capital Commitments Committee and of the Managing Directors Promotions Committee. Finally, he was Chairman of Capital Markets for Morgan Stanley, a board member of Morgan Stanley International Bank, Country Head of Italy as well as Chairman of FONSPA a mortgage bank.

He has been, and is currently, a member of the board or the advisory board of public and private, industrial and financial companies. He is a Senior Fellow of the Foreign Policy Association in New York and of the Atlantic Council in Washington. He is a Faculty Associate and the Co-Chair of the European Economic and Policy Program at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard. He is a frequent speaker and moderator at international conferences.

Prior to his career in investment banking Prof. Roscini worked as a researcher in nuclear archaeometry at the University of Rome, as a design engineer and project manager with Westinghouse Electric Corp. in the US and as a management consultant with the Boston Consulting Group in Paris.

He holds an M.B.A. from Harvard and a summa cum laude Laurea degree in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Rome, Italy.

AREAS OF INTEREST

• capital markets
• foreign direct investment
• government and business
• international finance