Mr. Riccardo Rao

Riccardo Rao graduated cum laude in Law from Bocconi University in 2017, with a thesis in corporate law. He subsequently completed an internship at the European Commission in Luxembourg before joining the Milan office of the international law firm Ashurst LLP, where he qualified as a lawyer in 2020.

In 2021, he began a full-time PhD in corporate law at the Universities of Trieste and Udine, focusing his research on corporate sustainability, with particular attention to benefit corporations. During this time, he also served as a teaching assistant in the Law and Economics course at Bocconi University.

His doctoral studies included three research periods abroad: at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom, the Université Toulouse Capitole 1 in France, and Fordham Law School in the United States. He successfully completed his PhD in June 2025.

In addition to Italian, his native language, Riccardo is fluent in English and has an intermediate knowledge of French.