Roberto Speranza

Roberto Speranza, Managing Director, is the Deputy Head of BlackRock's Financial Markets Advisory Group in EMEA. The Financial Markets Advisory Group provides a wide range of advisory, valuation and innovative solutions for its clients, which include banks, insurance companies, official institutions, and other financial intermediaries. Mr. Speranza is a member of FMA ExCo and leads the Group business development efforts in EMEA.

Prior to joining BlackRock in 2016, Roberto worked at UBS AG (London), where he was a Managing Director and the head of the FIG EMEA Debt Capital Market and Client Solution Team. He was a member of the EMEA DCM Executive Committee; EMEA Sales Committee; EMEA Suitability and Reputational Committee; and the Investment Banking European Business Review Committee. Mr. Speranza's team mandate included primary market issuances of debt and hybrid instruments, liability management, ABS, solutions business with special focus on asset & liability management, balance sheet optimization, NPL advisory, and collateralized funding. Prior to UBS, Mr. Speranza worked at Lehman Brothers (Nomura post 2008 acquisition) where he was responsible for the Southern European Structured and Principal Finance teams. Mr. Speranza started his career in 1996 at WestLB in London in the Securitization and Principal Finance team.

Mr. Speranza is a visiting teacher at the Corporate Finance course of the LUISS University part-time MBIA and serves as Chair of the Finance Committee at the Governors Board of St Joseph Primary School in London.  Roberto holds an MSc degree in finance from London Business School in 1999 and a BS degree in economics, with first class honors, from LUISS Guido Carli University, Rome in 1995.