She is head of the School of Banking, Finance and Insurance of Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore of Milan as well as Full Professor of Economics of Financial Intermediaries at the same School.

She was Director, Chairwoman of the Risk Committee and Chairwoman of the Supervisory and Control Committee of Credito Valtellinese S.p.A.

Among the positions at associations, she is currently President of the European Society for Banking and Financial Law (AEDBF); member of the Board of Directors of the Italian Academy for Business Economics (AIDEA) and member of the Scientific Committee of the Association of Chartered Accountants and Accounting Experts of Milan.

Internationally speaking, she is currently research associate of the “Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation” at the London School of Economics and academic fellow at the Centre for Responsible Banking & Finance of the University of St Andrews. During her academic career, she has been Visiting Professor at the Department of Accounting and Finance at the London School of Economics (2014 - 2019), where since 2001 she has been Lecturer and Tutor of "Principles of accounting and finance" and "Valuation and Investment Analysis" . She has been Visiting Professor at the China Center for Economic Research (2004) and at the Singapore Institute of Management (2007).

As to her institutional positions, she is director of the Second Level International University Master's Degree in Credit Risk Management at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (since 2009). Member of the Scientific Committee of the Monetary Analysis Laboratory, of the Research Centre on Cooperation and Non-Profits and of the Research Centre for Financial Training at Università Cattolica Sacro Cuore. Member of the Steering Committee of the Research Doctorate in  "Economics and Finance" at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. National coordinator of the PRIN (Project of Significant National Interest) project financed by the Ministry of University and Research (2005 - 2006). Deputy Head of the School of Economics at Università di Macerata (2005 - 2007).  Chairwoman and member of the Bonaldo Stringher Commission at Banca d’Italia (2015 - 2018).

Referee of prestigious Italian and international journals in the sector. She has had numerous publications in the financial and banking fields in the main scientific journals, as well as monographs and manuals also used internationally.