Egidio Palmieri is Aggregate Professor of Bank Risk Management and Financial Markets and Financial Institutions at the University of Udine, where he also serves as Senior Researcher in Banking and Finance (SECS-P/11). His academic interests focus on the intersection between banking regulation, sustainability, and financial innovation — with particular emphasis on ESG risk integration, FinTech partnerships, and the evolving bank–firm relationship in Europe.
He earned his Ph.D. in Managerial and Actuarial Sciences at the University of Udine, with a dissertation on banks’ capital structure and risk allocation under ESG criteria. He has been Visiting Research Fellow at the Bangor Business School (UK), collaborating within The Institute of European Finance – Responsible Banking led by Prof. Yener Altunbas.
Dr. Palmieri is Associate Editor of the Corporate and Business Strategy Review and the International Journal of Economics, Finance and Managerial Sciences, and sits on the editorial boards of Innovation Management Frontiers and the Journal of Financial Integrity. He also acts as external reviewer for the Italian Research Quality Assessment (VQR 2020–2024) promoted by the Ministry of Education, University and Research.
His research has been published in leading journals such as Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, Business Ethics, the Environment & Responsibility, Research in International Business and Finance, Finance Research Letters, and the International Review of Financial Analysis. He is also co-editor of the Routledge volume Innovation in Banking and Financial Intermediaries: The Disruptive Role of ESG Policies and FinTech Players(2025).
Egidio Palmieri regularly presents his work at national and international conferences — including EURAM, ADEIMF, Wolpertinger, and the Corporate Governance & Risk Management in Financial Institutions (CGRM) Conference — and has received the Best Paper Award at the 2025 Accounting & Finance Research Conference (Bari, Italy).
He is a member of AIDEA, ADEIMF, EURAM, and the OSSFI – Observatory on Financial Systems at the University of Udine.