Giampiero M. Gallo holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania (1989) and is a Consigliere (Judge) in the Italian Court of Audits. He was elected Fellow of the Society for Financial Econometrics in 2018. He was Professor of Econometrics at the School of Economics and Management at the Università di Firenze, Italy between 1991 and 2017. He taught or held positions at Queen Mary University of London, Johns Hopkins University, Bologna, LUISS, New York University, UC San Diego, Université de Paris (Panthéon-Sorbonne), UNC-Chapel Hill, Université de Genève and worked as a research fellow at the UN-UPenn Project Link, at the Central Planning Bureau in The Hague, and at INSEE-CREST in Paris. His research interests are in financial volatility modeling, financial crises, macroeconomic forecasting, public debt sustainability having published extensively in top Journals. He served as President of the Italian Econometric Association (SIDE) in the same period. He is married with two children. He is an avid urban biker and a collector of Le Petit Prince editions.