Antonio Mele is a Professor of Finance at USI and the Swiss Finance Institute since 2011. He joined USI with a Chair promoted by the Associazione Bancaria Ticinese and a Senior Chair awarded by the SFI after having served at the London School of Economics and Political Science for a decade. He is also a Research Fellow in the Financial Economics program of CEPR (Centre for Economic Policy and Research) in London. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Paris, and his expertise covers capital market volatility, the interlinks between financial markets and business cycles, and the microstructure of financial markets. Before these roles, he has taught at various institutions such as Université du Littoral, Queen Mary University of London, Università di Torino, and visiting positions at Princeton, Université de Toulouse, National University of Singapore, Imperial College London, and more. His contributions include creating new instruments to standardize the volatility of interest rate markets and advising central banks on financial market issues.