Michele Valeriani, Managing Director, is the Group Head of Anti Financial Crime of Assicurazioni Generali. Michele has been appointed by the Board of Assicurazioni Generali SpA and directly reports to it. He is also a stable participant to the Group Risk and Control Committee and part of the Generali Global Leadership Group. He has been also appointed Group AML Officer & Money Laundering Reporting Officer; Group International Sanctions Officer; Group FATCA Officer and Group Head of Anti Bribery and Corruption.

Before joining Generali in April 2021, he was the Global Head of Anti Financial Crime and Group Bank Secrecy Act Officer at UniCredit Group, where he was an Executive Vice President, also appointed responsible for the UniCredit Monitorship Liaison Office, in charge of the Global Remediation Program which UniCredit implemented as a fallout of the investigation of the US Authorities in relation to Sanctions Compliance matters. He covered different senior managerial roles in Compliance, as Global Head of Risk Assessment, Second Level Controls, Training & Culture for non-Financial Crime Risks (Market Integrity, Customer Protection, Conduct Risk) and Global Head of Governance, Oversight and Special Projects.

Michele started his career in London in 2004 in the Investment Banking Division of Deutsche Bank AG, within the European M&A, ECM and DCM desks. In late 2006 he joined the restructuring and turnaround practice of Bain & Company, being in charge of debt restructuring and financial modelling for companies in distressed situations.

He graduated in Economics from Bocconi University with major in Finance at the New York Leonard Stern Business School and International Business at the Copenhagen Business School. He holds an MBA in Finance and Management with honor from the IE Business School in Madrid and completed an Executive Program on Leadership and Digital technologies at Insead, Paris and one at IMD, Lausanne.