Rita Laura D'Ecclesia

Born in Foggia in 1960.

Appointed member of the Board of Directors of IVASS at the meeting of the Council of Ministers on June 20, 2025.

She graduated in Statistical and Demographic Sciences from “La Sapienza” University of Rome (1983). In 1990 she obtained a PhD in Business Economics, The Capital Market.

Since 2001, she has been full professor of Mathematical Methods for Economics and Actuarial and Financial Sciences at La Sapienza University of Rome. She is currently a lecturer in the Faculty of Information Engineering, Computer Science and Statistics and holds the Level 1 and 2 courses in Financial Mathematics, Asset Pricing and Risk Management and a postgraduate doctoral course in Advanced Finance and Asset Pricing.

She teaches in postgraduate courses (Masters, MBA; MSC) and higher training courses in various European and non-European venues: Energy Markets (ESCP London), Electricity and Renewables (ESCP, London); Commodity Pricing (MSc in Financial Engineering - Birkbeck University of London), Trainer in Risk Management for the Stockholm Energy Forum in various European venues, Trainer in Commodity Pricing and Risk Management for Marcus Evans in European and non-European venues (London, China, Brazil).

She has been coordinator of research projects, chair of study groups and committees, and chief scientific officer of national and international conferences in numerous topics pertaining to financial markets: financial instruments volatility measurement, application of optimization methods and stochastic calculus for modeling economic-financial phenomena, risk management and hedging strategies, pricing of complex instruments, sustainable investments, role of ESG ratings, valuation models for commodity prices.

She has been appointed as a member of numerous selection boards for teaching and research roles in universities and for the selection of employees of supervisory authorities (Bank of Italy, Consob, Ivass) and has held positions both nationally and internationally as an expert for the valuation of financial instruments.

She is coauthor of both national and international textbooks and author of numerous articles and editorials published in international journals.

She is chair of the Euro Working Group for Commodities and Financial Modelling, a group of international scholars engaged in Operations Research in the area of financial, insurance and commodity markets.