MICHELE MANNA

Biography

Graduated in Economics at the University of Rome “Sapienza”, I followed on with post-grad studies in economics in Denmark and in the United States (financed by a Fulbright scholarship). Since October 2024 I am with the UIF, the Financial Intelligence Unit for Italy, reporting directly to the Director of the Unit. This comes on top of a diversified professional experience gathered in Banca d’Italia and the ECB. Throughout this career track, I gained experience in financial markets, in the execution of monetary policy operations and in the management of the Bank of Italy’s banknote printing works. My main topics at the UIF relate to crypto-assets in an AML perspective and to the so-called virtual IBANs, besides the management of the operational risk. Author of several publications in economics and finance, the most recent paper, written together with three colleagues of the UIF, is entitled ‘Report on crypto-assets and the risk of money laundering’.