Simone Varotto is an Associate Professor of Finance at Henley Business School. He is Postgraduate Programme Area Director, Programme Director of BSc Finance and Management and Programme Co-Director of MSc Finance and Financial Technology (FinTech)
Simone holds a PhD in Financial Economics from Birkbeck College, London. Between 1996 and 2000, he was a member of the research staff of the Bank of England where he worked on credit risk modelling and bank regulation. Soon afterwards he joined the ICMA Centre at Henley Business School as a lecturer. Simone teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses in risk management and mergers and acquisitions and has an active research interest in credit, liquidity and systemic risk and financial regulation.
Simone has published in a number of peer reviewed international journals including the Journal of Banking and Finance, European Financial Management and the International Review of Financial Analysis. He is the recipient of the Research Endowment Trust Fund Best Research Output Prize for Henley Business School and of the Outstanding Paper Award of the Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence.
He has been an invited speaker at conferences/workshops organised by the Deutsche Bundesbank, Bank of Thailand, CFA Institute and Royal Bank of Scotland. Simone served as programme chair of the 2013 edition of the European Financial Management Association (EFMA) annual meeting, as a member of the board of directors of the EFMA and president of the Association.