Chiara Oldani is a CIGI visiting scholar since September 2014, where she is researching over-the-counter financial derivatives and the complex web of counter-party risk — widely considered to be one of the major precipitating factors of the global financial crisis. Author of Governing Global Derivatives: Challenges and Risks, and co-editor of Global Financial Crisis: Global Impact and Solutions (with John Kirton and Paolo Savona), she is a member of the scientific committee of the Fondazione Ugo La Malfa, a research associate at the Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis at Australian National University, and the director of research at the Rome-based Assonebb. She has been visiting scholar at the Cambridge Endowment for Research in Finance at the University of Cambridge, and at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. She has taught at Luiss Guido Carli University and the Italian Society for International Organization in Rome