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Lucia Calvosa was born in Rome on June 26, 1961. She is ordinary professor of commercial law at the University of Pisa. At the Faculty of Economics in Pisa, where she is professor of Commercial Law, she also taught Bankruptcy Law, Private Law and Banking Law for some years.

She was appointed to Chair the degree course in Economics and Commerce and served two terms of office; she Chairs the Scientific Teaching Committee of her regional professional association of chartered accountants (Associazione Ordine Dottori Commercialisti dell’Alto Tirreno) and is a member of the Board of academic tutors for postgraduate research in institutions, business and work at the Cattolica University in Milan.

She has for many years undertaken research and studies at the Institut für ausländisches und internationales Privat- und Wirtschaftsrecht of the University of Heidelberg. She has attended many Italian and international Conferences as speaker and participant.

In addition to a number of articles in major legal journals and collections of writings, she has published three monographs: La clausola di riscatto nella società per azioni, Milan, 1995; La partecipazione eccedente e i limiti al diritto di voto, Milan, 1999; Fondo patrimoniale e fallimento, Milan, 2003.

She has been asked to collaborate in the most widely used and accredited manuals of commercial disciplines currently in circulation, as well as in numerous commentaries of company and bankruptcy law.

She has been a member of the Pisa professional association of lawyers since 1987, and of the professional association of appeal lawyers since 1999, and has been a practicing lawyer for over twenty-five years, focussing on specialist judicial and extra-judicial issues, particularly in the field of company law and bankruptcy.

She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Fondazione Teatro di Pisa, of the Fondazione Arpa, of the Pisa Chamber of Commerce and of the Fondazione Pisa (formerly Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Pisa)

From 2008 to 2011 she was Chairman of the Cassa di Risparmio di San Miniato S.p.A. In this capacity she also held other offices, such as member of the national committee of banks (Comitato delle Società Bancarie) and served on the board of the Italian banking association, ABI (Associazione Bancaria Italiana).

Since August 2011 she has been an independent member of the Board of Directors of Telecom Italia S.p.A. as well as a member of the Control and Risk Committee, of which she has also been Chairwoman since April 2014.

Since November 2014 she has been an independent member of the Board of Directors of Editoriale Il Fatto S.p.A.. Since April 2015 she has been an independent member of the Board of Directors of Banca Monte dei Pashi di Siena S.p.A.

In 2005 she was awarded the “Ordine del Cherubino”, bestowed by the University of Pisa to those professors, who “have helped to enhance its prestige for outstanding scientific and cultural merits and their decisive contribution to academic life and to the functioning of the University”.

In February 2010 she was awarded a Unesco medal for "having contributed, with the publication of Monumenta, to highlighting and raising awareness of an important episode in Italian artistic culture in the spirit of Unesco".

With Presidential Decree of 2 June 2012 of the Ministry of Economy and Finance she was awarded, upon proposal of ABI, a knighthood in the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.

In June 2015 she was awarded the price “Ambrogio Lorenzetti” for the good governance in the companies, as engaged in academic and cultural activities, internationally recognized and having promoted, as a Director, scientific rigour and independence as a value in highly complex and competitive company contexts.