Prof. Pelizzon graduated from the London Business School with a doctorate in Finance. She was Assistant Professor in Economics at the University of Padova from 2000 till 2004 and more recently a Visiting Associate Professor at MIT Sloan. Her research interests are on risk measurement and management, asset allocation and household portfolios, hedge funds, financial institutions, systemic risk and financial crisis. Her work includes papers published in the Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Financial Intermediation, and Journal of Banking and Finance. She has been awarded the EFA 2005 - Barclays Global Investor Award for the Best Symposium paper, FMA 2005 European Conference for the best conference paper and the Award for the Most Significant Paper published in the Journal of Financial Intermediation 2008.
Prof. Pelizzon teaches Financial Economics and Investments at the International Master in Economics and Finance program and Economics and Financial Economics at the undergraduate program. She has been awarded the Best Teacher in 2007 and 2008 at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice. Furthermore, she is one of the coordinators of the European Finance Association (EFA) Doctoral Tutorial, member of the EFA Executive Committee and member of the BSI GAMMA Foundation Board. She has been involved in NBER and FDIC projects as well as EU and Inquire Europe projects. She frequently advises banks, pension funds and government agencies on risk measurement and risk management strategies.