Silvia Pezzini

Focus Areas: Financial stability and systemic risk; central banking and macroprudential policy; advanced analytics and AI in financial surveillance; global capital flows and financial markets

Silvia Pezzini is a financial stability expert with two decades of experience at major central banks and regulators in Hong Kong and the UK. She recently served as Head of the Financial Stability Surveillance Division at the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, where she led a multidisciplinary team and championed the use of advanced analytics and AI in systemic risk analysis. Her work has spanned monitoring global capital flows and OTC derivatives markets, designing frameworks for monetary stability and developing new granular credit risk surveillance. While at the Bank of England, she contributed to financial stability analysis during the Global Financial Crisis, to monetary policy strategy during the UK recession, and to macroprudential policy during the EU sovereign debt crisis.

Earlier in her career, Silvia was a Royal Economic Society Tutorial Fellow at the London School of Economics and worked as Assistant Professor at the University of Namur in Belgium, as adjunct professor at the United Nations International Labor Organization training center and at the Hong Kong Monetary Authority’s own Central Banking course for new graduates. She also contributed to governance in education as a nonexecutive director and chair of the board of Kellett School, the British International School in Hong Kong.

Silvia has published research using large datasets in academic journals (Economic Journal, Journal of Financial Stability) and policy publications. She holds a PhD in Economics from the London School of Economics, a Master’s in International Relations from the Geneva Graduate Institute and an Economics degree from Bocconi University.

Education

• Ph.D.in Economics, London School of Economics
• Master in International Relations, Geneva Graduate Institute