Biography

Ettore Maria Lombardi is a Professor of Private Law and Digital Society Law at the University of Florence School of Law and is of Counsel at the boutique Hage-Chahine with Lombardi (previously, Ettore Maria was of Counsel at the Rome and Milan offices of DLA Piper and Hogan Lovells). Academically, Ettore Maria is co-Director (alongside Professor Marc-André Renold of the University of Geneva and Professor Eike Schmidt, Director of the Capodimonte Museum and the Royal Park) of the Executive Course in Art & Law, and Director of the Executive Course in “The Condominium: Between Law and its Social Role.”

Ettore Maria holds an J.D. from the University of Florence School of Law (Italy), a Licentiate in Canon Law from the Pontifical Lateran University (Vatican City), a Bachelor of Theology from the Pontifical Lateran University (Vatican City), a Master of Laws from Harvard Law School (U.S.A.), a Ph.D. in Civil Law from the University of Florence School of Law (Italy), an Advanced Certificate in Artificial Intelligence from the Oxford Saïd Business School (U.K.), an Advanced Certificate in Business Sustainability Management from the University of Cambridge (U.K.), and an Advanced Certificate in Sustainable Finance from the University of Cambridge (U.K.).

Among other positions, Ettore Maria has been a Visiting Scholar in Dispute Resolution at the Carey Center for Dispute Resolution at St. John’s Law School (New York, USA). He is currently an Adjunct Professor at the University of Miami School of Law (Miami, FL, USA), a Senior Researcher at the Empirical and Applied Research Laboratory in Law and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Brasilia (Brazil), a Research Associate at the University College London Centre for Blockchain Technologies (UCL CBT) at University College London (UK), a Senior Specialist at the BRICS Competition Law and Policy Center at the National Research Higher School of Economics (Moscow, Russian Federation), a Visiting Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies of the European University Institute (EUI) in Fiesole (Italy), a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Global Law, Economics and Finance (IGLEF) at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies at Queen Mary University of London (U.K.), a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Competition, Investment & Economic Regulation (CUTS C-CIER) (Jaipur, India), and an Academic Fellow at the Centre for Technology, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence and the Law (TRAIL) at National University of Singapore (Singapore).

He has served two terms (the maximum allowed by regulation) as a Member of the Banking and Financial Arbitrator appointed by the Bank of Italy (Bologna, Italy) and is currently President of the Supervisory Body “Model 231” of Nuova Pignone Holding S.p.A. (holding of the Baker Hughes group) (Florence, Italy).

Ettore Maria has taught and conducted research at prestigious universities in the United States, the U.K., France, Russia, Germany, China, India, and Singapore. He is a qualified lawyer in Italy and for the New York State Bar and is a member of various international legal associations. He is, among other roles, the Event Officer of the Harvard Law School Association of Europe, a Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) Alumnus (Germany), an Associate of the Société de législation comparée in Paris (France), an Associate of the Association Henri Capitant des amis de la culture juridique française in Paris (France), and an Associate of The London Centre for Commercial and Financial Law in London (UK).

Ettore Maria Lombardi  has published six books with prestigious Italian and British publishers and over sixty articles in the most relevant national and international journals in private law, commercial law, and financial market law.