Biography
Alfonso Ricciardelli, CFA, is a cofounder of Noosk, a platform that allows users to share knowledge-based content, where he is focused on legal, finance, and marketing. Ricciardelli’s career spans 15 years between politics and finance. After interning for a corporate law firm in Italy, he moved to Brussels, where he worked in policymaking and lobbying during the formative years of his career. Ricciardelli subsequently spent years advising institutional investors on political risk. In addition to his professional achievements, he is a polyglot, fluent in English, Italian, Spanish, and French. Ricciardelli has a JD from the University of Naples, an LLM in competition law from the College of Europe, and an MA in European politics and policy from NYU.
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