
Enrico Perotti is Professor of International Finance at the University of Amsterdam. He received his PhD in Finance at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Enrico Perotti has held visiting appointments at the University of Oxford, London Business School, London School of Economics, and MIT. His research is in corporate finance and banking, theory of the firm, political economy of finance, economic and legal innovation, and financial development. His publications routinely appear in the top economics and finance journals. He is Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research in London, and currently serves on the Council of the European Economic Association. Professor Perotti has been a visiting scholar at the IMF research department six times since 1992, and acted as consultant to the IMF and World Bank on banking, financial reforms and stability. He was EU senior policy advisor to the Russian Ministry of Finance and Russian Central Bank in 1996-2000. Since 2010 he is senior advisor on Macro Prudential policy at DNB. In April 2011 he received the Houblon Normal Fellowship from the Bank of England. He directs since 1998 the Amsterdam Center for International Finance (CIFRA). University of Amsterdam web page.