Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. He completed his master’s studies at Robert Gordon and Aberdeen University in Scotland, where he was awarded an MSc in International Business.
Dr. Bensadi taught across several European universities in Italy, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands, teaching undergraduate and postgraduate students over many years. His teaching philosophy is applied and hands-on, guiding students from raw data to informed business decisions through quantitative methods and real-world case studies, and his classroom performance has been formally recognized for excellence.
Dr. Bensadi has extensive professional experience as a senior manager in the banking and financial sectors across Europe, specializing in risk modelling and validation at international commercial and development banks, and engaging with supervisory authorities such as the European Central Bank. Over many years, he developed and validated risk models across market, credit, and operational risk, applying statistical analysis and predictive modelling techniques with programming languages such as SAS and SQL. He managed model risk across the full model life cycle from development and validation to performance monitoring and periodic review producing technical documentation to regulatory standards and presenting validation findings to senior management and supervisory authorities.
Dr. Bensadi maintains an active research agenda that is fundamentally interdisciplinary, situated at the intersection of finance, economics, data science, and sustainability studies. His research interests span sustainable finance, environmental economics, ESG disclosure, and corporate governance, approached through rigorous quantitative and econometric methods including causal inference, panel-data and spatial econometrics, and machine-learning techniques. By combining these methods with perspectives drawn from management, information systems, and the environmental sciences, his work addresses complex business and policy questions that cannot be adequately understood within a single discipline, and speaks to academic, practitioner, and policymaker audiences alike. His research has been published in leading international peer-reviewed journals, and he also serves as a reviewer for international academic journals in his field.
