Senior Economist, Bank of Italy
Claudia Biancotti joined Banca d’Italia in 2002 as an economist/statistician in the Sample Surveys Division, Statistical Analysis Directorate. For more than a decade she worked on survey methodology and analysis of microdata on the economic behavior of households and firms.
In 2016, she moved to the Emerging Economies and World Trade Division, International Economics and Relations Directorate, where she specialized in emerging cyber risks for the global economy, and developed the first official dataset on the frequency and economic impact of cyber attacks against the Italian private sector.
Claudia is currently serving as Secretary of the High-Level Cybersecurity Task Force at the Bank of Italy, chaired by the Senior Deputy Governor, where IT, banking supervision, payment system oversight and economic research come together to develop a cybersecurity strategy for the Bank and the financial sector. Her research is currently focused on the microeconomics and econometrics of cybersecurity. She is also interested in survey methodology and political economy. She earned a doctorate in economics from the University of Torino (Italy) in 2005.