About

Antonio Foglia is a Lugano based Italian and Swiss economist. He is Vice-Chair and shareholder of Banca del Ceresio, a private bank in Lugano, Switzerland and serves on the Boards of its subsidiaries in London and Milan. After earning a degree in Political Economy from Bocconi University in Milan, he worked in Tokyo, New York and London to complete his training. He has been professionally involved in Private Banking and with Hedge Funds since the mid-1980’s. In addition to co-managing several leading multimanager Hedge Funds, Antonio Foglia is, or was, also a director of several Hedge Funds, including George Soros' Quantum Endowment Fund. Antonio Foglia is a Global Partners' Council Member of INET, The Institute for New Economic Thinking, a member of the Swiss Society for Financial Market Research and of the Italian Financial Analysts’ Association. He is a Trustee of Central European University and a member of the Steering Committee of Bruno Leoni Institute. He served three terms on the Foundation Board of the Swiss Finance Institute as representative of Ticino's Banks Association. He was also a member of the Scientific Committee of Confindustria from 2013 to 2016. Articles by Antonio Foglia appear on major media: Project Syndicate, Financial Times, Corriere della Sera, ilSole24Ore, Corriere del Ticino.