Antonio Foglia is a London-based Italian and Swiss economist. He is a Board Member and shareholder of Banca del Ceresio, a private bank in Lugano, Switzerland, with subsidiaries in London and Milan. He earned a degree in Political Economy from Bocconi University in Milan and has been professionally involved in private banking and hedge funds since the mid-1980’s. In addition to co-managing several multimanager hedge funds, including Leveraged Capital Holdings N.V., the world’s oldest offshore multimanager fund, and Global Managers Selection Funds, the
largest Italian Fund of Hedge Funds, Foglia has also served as a director for several funds, including the Quantum Endowment Fund.
He is a member of the Swiss Society for Financial Market Research and of the Italian Financial Analysts’ Association. He is also a Trustee of Central European University and served three terms on the Foundation Board of the Swiss Finance Institute as the representative of the Ticino Bankers Association. He is a member of the Scientific Committee of Confindustria and a frequent contributor of finance articles to the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera.