Laura Segni

HEAD OF IMI CIB LEGAL ADVISORY

Graduated in Law Studies at La Sapienza University of Rome with an experimental thesis on "The Responsibility of the State for Breach of Community Law," supervisor Prof. Sabino Cassese.

She spent several years to studying, teaching and the University career. In 2001, she won the competition for one of two annual fellowships for Italian researchers at the European University Institute in Fiesole, where she earned a PhD with a thesis in "The power of the purse in the EU. The execution of the European budget" with Prof. Giuliano Amato.

She worked at the Ministry of Economy and Finance, first as an expert on structural funds and then as Legal Advisor to the Minister of Economy for three different governments. In this second experience, which took place during the years of the banking crisis and the subsequent sovereign debt crisis, she represented the Italian Republic in the Committees of Ecofin Council, for the negotiation of regulations on European supervision, the package of regulations on the reform of the Stability Pact and the creation of the State Save Funds (EFSF and ESM).

She joined the Intesa Sanpaolo Group in 2012 and she has been General Counsel for Banca IMI since November 2014.

Head of IMI CIB Legal Advisory since July 2020.