Federico Ghizzoni was the CEO of Italian bank

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, as well as the COO of Koç Financial Services. He has been CEO at UniCredit since September 2010 till 24 May 2016 and has a distinguished career at the company, spanning more than 30 years.

Career

Ghizzoni's has spent his entire career at

, with his first role as customer relations manager at a branch in his town of origin,

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. He went on to hold numerous senior management positions at some of the bank's international operations, with posts in

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and western

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. During the nineties, Ghizzoni was the deputy general manager of UniCredit's

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office and later went on to head the firm's

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operations. In 2000, Ghizzoni was appointed as head of UniCredit's division in

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, Bank Pekao, while three years later, he was put in charge of the firm's joint venture that controlled

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’s largest bank, Yapi Kredi.

Other roles

Ghizzoni also sits on the management board at the Bank Austria and is the chairman of the Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala Association in

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. He is a member of the board of directors of the Institute of International Finance in Washington, D.C., as well as the IMF, the Institut International d'Edtudes Bancaires in

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, and of the European Services Financial Round Table.

Education

Ghizzoni holds a degree in law from the University of

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’s law school, from where he graduated in 1980.

References

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