Carla Desideri

Born in L’Aquila on 3 October 1975. After graduating cum laude in Economics and Business at “La Sapienza” University of Rome, she began her professional career in the insurance sector with an internship at an international consulting firm. After this experience, she worked for one of the major insurance players, where she focused, in particular, on issues related to the asset liability management and to the transition to the international accounting standards.

In 2006, she joined ISVAP and was assigned to the Inspection Directorate where she dealt with on-site supervision of Italian undertakings, with a focus on the internal control and risk management system and on corporate governance. Since 2008 she has taken part in the main projects launched by the Institute to manage the transition from Solvency I to Solvency II.

Since 2011 she has been working for the Studies and International Relations Directorate (which in 2013 became the current Supervisory Regulations and Policies Directorate), where she has been dealing with issues related to: the financial stability, the development of Solvency II supervisory tools, the developments in the regulations on investments, the life products as well as the internal control and risk management system.

She has been member of numerous working groups on strategically important issues, including those for the reorganization of the Institute further to the establishment of IVASS in 2013. She has been, and still is, the coordinator of the Interdepartmental Working Groups for the review of the regulations on life products, including both traditional products linked to separately managed accounts, and linked products.

Since 2011 she has taken part in the works for the drafting of the Financial Stability Report by the Bank of Italy, in particular for the insurance sector trends, and in 2016 she became member of the Editorial committee for the drafting of the Report.

As from1 January 2020 she is the Head of the Supervisory Regulations Division, within which, in the same year, an area was established dedicated to both on-site and off-site methodologies for prudential and conduct supervision.