Alessandro
Merli

Alessandro Merli is an associate fellow at Johns Hopkins University at the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) Europe, where he was responsible for the European Current Events Seminars. He is an adjunct professor at the Bologna Business School where he teaches International Economics. In 2014 he was voted best Global MBA lecturer by BBS students. He is part of the research and policy network on central bank communication, created by the Centre for Economic Policy Research in collaboration with the European Central Bank.

He is an independent director of Credem bank. Previously, he worked for more than 30 years at the business daily Il Sole 24 Ore, where he was, among other things, Frankfurt/ECB watcher, columnist/reporter, head of the Finance and Markets section and London correspondent. He has received several awards for his journalism, including the award of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at the IV Italy-Latin America Conference, the Citigroup Award for Journalistic Excellence, of which he was the first winner of the Italian edition, and the Southern Cross award from the President of Brazil. He holds a law degree from the University of Modena and an MA in Economics from the University of Illinois. He was a visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.