Adolfo Laurenti

Adolfo Laurenti has extensive experience analyzing global financial markets and economic trends for a variety of industries and is a frequent speaker to diverse audiences in the United States and abroad. Before working at VISA, he was the global economist for a private bank in Zurich, Switzerland, and chief international economist and managing director for Mesirow Financial in Chicago. He has worked as an economist in the United States and Italy and was also a noncommissioned officer in the Italian Army. He serves on the board of the National Association for Business Economics, is a member of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Industrial Roundtable, was chairman of the Chicago Opera Theatre Bravo Club, and was awarded the N.A.T.O.-Fontainebleau Youth Foundation Scholarship. He earned an MSc from Università L. Bocconi in Milan, an MA and a PhD ABD from George Mason University, and has studied in Denmark and Hungary.