Simona Malovaná
Czech National BankSimona Malovaná is Director of the Financial Research Division at the Czech National Bank. She holds a PhD from Charles University in Prague.
Her fields of interest include financial stability, macroprudential and monetary policy, economic modeling, wealth and income inequality, as well as climate risks.
Lucas Mariani
ERSA and University of Milano-BicoccaLucas Mariani holds a PhD in Economics from the University of North Carolina, a Masters degree from the University of Sao Paulo, and a bachelor’s degree from the Sao Paulo School of Economics. He has been a Policy Associate at Economic Research Southern Africa and a Research Fellow at the University of Milano-Bicocca since 2021. His research interests include and draw together finance, development economics, and firm dynamics, especially the effects of fintech usage and financial development.