Alessandro
Messina is an Italian economist and manager.
An expert on banking, sustainability and the nonprofit sector, he
has been Head of Impact Finance at Avanzi Benefit Corporation since May 2022. He has also been:
- Non Executive Director at Alternative Capital Partners Sgr (April 2022 to May 2025);
- Non Executive Director at Satispay (January 2022 to May 2023);
- Head of Bank-Firm Relationships and Special Projects at Federcasse, the Italian Federation of Co-operative Banks, which represents almost 400 local cooperative banks, leader in the credit market to small businesses, agriculture, cooperatives, nonprofits and social enterprises (2011-2015);
- in charge of the Credit
Department at ABI,
the Italian Banking
Association (2008-2011);
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Director General at the Italian Ministry of Solidarity
(2007-2008);
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Head of the “Autopromozione sociale” programme for promoting small enterprises at the Municipality of Rome, which won the 2006
edition of the European Enterprise Award
assigned by the European Commission (2004-2007);
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President of the Ethical Finance Association
in Italy (2002-2004);
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Director at Lunaria
(2001-2004), NGO working in the field of international solidarity and
volunteering. He was also a co-founder and researcher at Sbilanciamoci!, a civil society campaign for the sustainable use of public funds in social and environmental terms;
- Researcher at ISTAT, on public expenditure and nonprofit institutions;
- Researcher at the University of Rome La Sapienza;
- Lecturer in several universities: Urbino, Ferrara, Cagliari, etc.;
- Co-founder and Board Member at The Hub Rome;
- Board Member at CAES Italia, insurance consortium for non profit organizations;
- Board Member at AltrEconomia, an indipendent media publisher on the issue of alternative-economy practices;
- Co-founder and Board Member at OBI-ONE, a consultancy for nonprofit and solidarity based enterprises.
He holds a Bachelor degree in Economics, full marks with honours (110/110 cum laude), from the University of Rome “La Sapienza” (1994), and a Master and fellowship in “Economics of financial markets”, from the LUISS Management School in Rome (1995).
He is Lecturer on Nonprofit in several Universities (University of Rome La Sapienza and University of Rome Tor Vergata.
He holds a Bachelor degree in Economics, full marks with honours (110/110 cum laude), from the University of Rome “La Sapienza” (1994), and a Master and fellowship in “Economics of financial markets”, from the LUISS Management School in Rome (1995).
He is Lecturer on Nonprofit in several Universities (University of Rome La Sapienza and University of Rome Tor Vergata.
All his publications, most in Italian, here.
Selected publications in English here.