Claudio Scardovi is a managing director and global co-head of the financial services practice for AlixPartners, a global consultancy focused on restructuring, value recovery, transformation, and growth. He has specialized in the financial services sector for the last 22 years, including 17 as managing director or country/regional head of financial services for a number of companies, including KPMG, Accenture, Intervaluenet, Oliver Wyman, Lehman Brothers, Nomura, Advent International, and AlixPartners. He is also a teaching professor at Bocconi University and SDA Bocconi, specializing in capital markets, financial systems, restructuring, and transformation, and on the Imperial College (London) master’s course in management. Claudio Scardovi has written more than 200 articles and papers and 13 books, published by Edibank, EGEA, Il Sole 24 Ore, Quondam, Mondadori, and Springer. He is also a member of the Strategic Advisory Board/Future of Banking of the World Economic Forum and of the board of Risanamento SpA, the largest real estate developer in Italy.