Biography

Professor Luigi Rizzo is Vice Chairman of Investment Banking at Morgan Stanley, based in London.  Prior to Morgan Stanley, he worked at Bank of America (Merrill Lynch) where he was Head of Corporate & Investment Banking for the European Union (2018-2020), Head of Investment Banking for the EMEA region (2016-2020) and Head of EMEA Mergers & Acquisitions and Corporate Finance (2013-2016).  Before that, Luigi was a Partner at Goldman Sachs where he started his professional career as a financial analyst in 1993, eventually becoming a Managing Director in 2004 and a Participating Managing Director in 2008.  He is also a Guest Finance Lecturer or Speaker at IMD (Lausanne, Switzerland), the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College (Hanover, USA), IE Business School (Madrid, Spain), NHH (Bergen, Norway) and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, USA).  He received a Master of Science in Business Engineering (cum laude) from Solvay Brussels School of Economics & Management (Belgium) in 1993.