working in the private sector and academia, advising market participants, policy makers and institutions
working in the private sector and academia, advising market participants, policy makers and institutions
“Smart Money: How digital currencies will win the New Cold War - and why the West needs to act now”, the book Brunello Rosa has written with Casey Larsen for Bloomsbury Publishing, will be available in all major bookshops from October 24th, 2024.
This book discusses the fundamental theme of the “geopolitics of central bank digital currencies” in a non-technical manner, and is aimed at the general public. It does not shy away from discussing their most controversial implications, including the risks to privacy, the stability of the banking system as we know it, or the re-organisation of the global financial architecture around these new instruments.
Read online the profile article titled "The Pioneering Visionary"
Brunello Rosa is a macroeconomist and strategist with extensive policy experience who works in the private sector and academia and advises market participants, policy makers and institutions.
Brunello is an advisor to Steering Committee of the UK Parliament’s All-Party Parliamentary Group on Central Banks and Digital Currencies, to the Chief Economist of the European Investment Bank and to the Ambassador of Italy to the UK. From 2024, Brunello Rosa will attend the meetings of the Academic Advisory Group recently formed by the Bank of England and HM Treasury, on matters related to his line of research on CBDCs. In 2022 he was invited by the Bundesbank to presented his views on the geopolitical aspects of CBDCs for the G7 forum organised by Germany.
In 2021, Brunello Rosa was recognized as Top 20 Dynamic CEOs in the UK by the magazine CEO Publication, with a profile article titled "The Pioneering Visionary".
In 2020, Brunello Rosa has been included in the list of the top-100 financial-services influencers in the world by Onalytica for his discussion over Covid-19 and its impact on the global economy and financial markets.
Brunello is the CEO and Head of Research at Rosa & Roubini Associates, an independent macro-financial and geo-political advisory firm. Before co-founding this venture with the renowned economist Nouriel Roubini, he served as co-Head of Research and Managing Director for Developed Markets, G10 Rates and Currencies at Roubini Global Economics. Brunello joined RGE from the Bank of England, where he had mainly worked in Markets, in the division that implements monetary policy and provides liquidity insurance. He also briefly served in the Bank’s Financial Stability area and its Centre for Central Banking Studies. Previously, he worked as a macroeconomist and fixed income strategist with a focus on Europe at IDEAglobal, a market intelligence company.
Brunello Rosa is a Honorary Visiting Professor in the School of Policy and Global Affairs at City, University of London. Previously he was Visiting Lecturer at the Department of International Politics and a research fellow of the City Political Economy Research Centre of the same university. Brunello is also Senior Executive Fellow of SDA Bocconi, after being for several years Visiting Professor at the Department of Social and Political Sciences of Bocconi University (Italy).
He is also an Associate at the Centre For Macroeconomics of the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he is the coordinator of the Executive Education course "Global Macroeconomic Challenges" and has been a practitioner lecturer in finance for MSc students. He was previously a Research Associate at the Systemic Risk Centre and Financial Markets Group of the LSE.
He is a Guest Speaker at the MSc in Central Banking and Financial Regulation co-organised by the Warwick University Business School and the Bank of England, within the module on Behavioural Finance. He has attended the conferences of the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) and contributes to the Research Hub in Finance of the UK's National Institute of Economic and Social Research, for the ESRC program on Rebuilding Macroeconomics.
Prior to joining the private sector, he was a research assistant at the Financial Markets Group of the London School of Economics, where he also taught classes in finance. Brunello started his career as a data analyst at the Department of Economics and as a research fellow at Siena University’s Centre for Complex System Studies, where he studied and researched the financial fragility of economic systems. Brunello holds a master’s degree in finance and economics from the London School of Economics and a laurea cum laude in economics from the University of Siena in Italy.
Brunello is an active member of Chatham House (The Royal Institute of International Affairs), the UK’s Institute of Directors, the International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS) and the Bretton Woods Committee.
In these various capacities, Brunello appeared on Bloomberg, Reuters, CNBC and other TV programs, and had been quoted by a variety of media outlets.
In 2014, Brunello was awarded a prize by the Italian Chamber of Commerce and Industry in the UK for his "outstanding contributions" to the development of business ties between the UK and Italy. These include his articles and events with Raffaele Cantone, president of Italy's Anti-Corruption Authority. He is now President of the Association Talented Italians In the UK, which gathers the winners of the prize "Young Talented Italians." Since 2008, is has been a member of Italy's RENA (Rete per L'Eccellenza Nazionale).