Main areas of expertise
Venture Capital, Capital Markets, Banking, Banking Supervision, Network Science.
Short biography
Since 2020, Marta Zava is an Academic Fellow at the Department of Finance of Bocconi University, Milan, and a Ph.D. Candidate in Economics at GSEFM – Goethe Universitat, Frankfurt am Main.
Since 2022, Marta has been a Professor of the Finance Lab (Summer School), and of the Pre-liquidity Events (CEMS) and ESG Supply Chain (CEMS) courses at Bocconi University, for which she obtained impeccable evaluations. Since 2021, she has been teaching International Finance and Investment Banking in master’s degree courses and had offered her support to the Algebris Training Camp and the BNP Paribas “Finance, investment and sustainability: thinking long-term” Block Seminar.
Her research activity focuses on venture capital, capital markets and banking, combining financial disciplines with innovative methodologies ranging from artificial intelligence to complex systems. She obtained the position of MUSA project researcher from the Italian Governement to develop her research. Marta’s doctoral thesis, “Venture Capital and Complex Systems” was awarded among the best three theses in complex systems by CSS France.
She is a speaker at international conferences on finance and on complex systems and network science, including the Conference on Complex Systems (Palma de Mallorca, ES, 2022), the Conference on Complex Networks (Aveiro, PT, 2023) and NetSci (Vienna, AU , 2023). She broadcasts her research topics by writing as a columnist in newspapers such as Il Sole 24 Ore and Economia e Finanza Online.
Marta is part of the Equita Research Lab in Capital Markets and has collaborated with Confindustria, Cassa Depositi e Prestiti, Citi Ventures, Zurich Insurance, EssilorLuxottica, Algebris, BNP Paribas. Additionally, she serves on the board of the Complex Systems Society (CSS).
She is the author of numerous chapters in financial textbooks, encyclopedias, and financial essay collections.
Previously, in 2017, 2018, and 2019, she worked first at the European Commission and later as a Supervision Analyst at the European Central Bank, dealing with 360° banking supervision with constant contacts with all European national supervisory authorities.
Publications
“Corporate and investment banking: a hands-on approach” (with Stefano Caselli, Gimede Gigante and Andrea Tortoroglio), Bocconi University Press, 2021.
- Chapter 1: The Fundamental of Banks
- Chapter 2: The Regulation of the Banking System and of Capital Adequacy
- Chapter 3: Introduction to Corporate and Investment Banking in Corporate and investment banking: a hands-on approach
Caselli S., Gatti S., Zava M, 2022. Scoreboard on Capital Markets, Quarterly Column Series on Capital Markets, Equita SIM and Baffi Carefin – Bocconi University, Available at: https://www.equitalab.eu/wp-content /uploads/2022/03/Equita-NL2_March-22_vF.pdf
“Capital Markets” (with Stefano Caselli and Stefano Gatti), Bocconi University Press, 2023.
- Chapter 2: Investors in Capital Markets
Caselli S., Gatti S., Zava M, 2023. Scoreboard on Capital Markets, Quarterly Column Series on Capital Markets, Equita SIM and Baffi Carefin – Bocconi University, Available at: https://www.equitalab.eu/wp-content /uploads/2023/06/EQUITALAB-Quarterly-column-5-scoreboard.pdf
Caselli, Stefano and Zava, Marta, Private Equity and Venture Capital Markets in Europe (October 27, 2022). The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Private Equity, 2023, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4434180
Zava, Marta and Caselli, Stefano, Venture Capital Networks (November 27, 2022). The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Private Equity, 2023, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4433596Caselli, Stefano and Zava, Marta, Private Equity and Venture Capital Markets in Europe (October 27, 2022). The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Private Equity, 2023, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4434180
Zava, Marta and Caselli, Stefano, Venture Capital Networks (November 27, 2022). The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Private Equity, 2023, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4433596
