VALENTINA MILELLA
ADDRESS: CORSO MAGENTA 63
20123 MILAN, ITALY
PHONE: +39 02.520.36934
FAX: +39 02.520.36946
E-MAIL: valentina.milella@feem.it
Born in Turin, Italy on May 18, 1979
WORK EXPERIENCE
2008 – Present position
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei - FEEM
Head of Communication and External Relations
Responsibility for internal and external institutional communications including visual identity; coordinating the
publications and events offices, managing the website and the relations with the media.
2004 - 2008
Privatization Barometer, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei - FEEM
Senior Analyst and Communication Officer
Working at Privatization Barometer (PB) - the first internet portal on privatization and official provider of data
to OECD and the World Bank - in a research team carrying out in-depth analysis of privatization processes in
the Enlarged Europe. Coordinating the organization of scientific events; liaising with in-house and external
researchers and authors for the publication of official reports and newsletters; web content development and
management; media relations.
2002 - 2007
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei - FEEM
Research Assistant
Research activity within the "Privatization, Regulation and Corporate Governance" Unit; data collection,
analysis and reporting; proofreading and paper editing.
EDUCATION
1997 - 2002
Università degli Studi di Torino - Facoltà di Economia
Laurea in Economics (105/110)
Thesis Title: "Privatizations and financial markets: 25 years of evidence".
1999 / 2000
Euromed Management | ESC-MP - Ecole Supérieure de Commerce Marseille-Provence (Francia)
International Business Program on "Finance, Economics and Marketing"
Visiting Student (Erasmus), International Business Program on "Finance, Economics and Marketing".
1993 - 1997
Collegio San Giuseppe di Torino
High School Diploma on Classical Studies – "Maturità Classica" (58/60)
1995 / 1996
Salpointe Catholic High School, Tucson – Arizona (USA)
Honor Roll Certificate, Junior Year of High School
PRESENTATIONS AT CONFERENCES
Presentation of the FEEM Award 2014 at the Annual Congress of the European Economic Association (EEA),
Toulouse, France (August 2014).
Presentation of the FEEM Award 2013 at the Annual Congress of the European Economic Association (EEA),
Gothenburg, Sweden (August 2013).
Presentation of the FEEM Award 2012 at the Annual Congress of the European Economic Association (EEA),
Malaga, Spain (August 2012).
Conference on the Economics of Sustainable Development, Milan, Italy (January 2007).
Privatization Taskforce on the Initiative for Policy Dialogue - IPD, Columbia University, New York, USA
(June 2004).
International Conference on Corporate Governance in China, The World Bank, Washington, D.C. (June 2004).
SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS
"Privatization in Western Europe: Stylized Facts, Outcomes and Open Issues" (with B. Bortolotti), FEEM Note
di Lavoro 124.2006, and in Privatization Successes and Failures, edited by Gérard Roland and foreword by
Joseph E. Stiglitz, Columbia University Press, 2, 32-75, 2008 [Chapter in Book].
"State ownership, political risk, and asset prices" (with A. Beltratti and B. Bortolotti). [An empirical paper on
the stock price performance of privatization-related indexes - Deliverable 8.2 of the UPP Project (CIT5-CT2005-028647) co-funded by the EC within the 6FP (2002-2006).] Was a feature story on Il Sole 24 Ore
(February 14, 2007).
RESEARCH ASSISTANCE AND EDITORIAL CONTRIBUTION TO THE PUBLICATION OF
Books
"Crescere insieme, per un’economia giusta", B. Bortolotti, Editori Laterza, 2013.
"Comuni S.p.A. - Il capitalismo municipale in Italia", B. Bortolotti, C. Scarpa, P. Bianchi, e Pellizzola L., il
Mulino, 2009.
"The Challenges of Privatization: An International Analysis", by B. Bortolotti and Siniscalco D., Oxford
University Press, 2004. (Reviewed by Foreign Affairs, Vol. 83, Number 6, 2004).
Working papers, articles and other writngs
"Fiat Privatization: The Non-Tradable Share Reform and Stock Market Fundamentals in China", by B.
Bortolotti, A. Beltratti and Caccavaio M., October 2010.
"Quiet Leviathans: Sovereign Wealth Fund Investment, Passivity and the Value of the Firm", by B. Bortolotti,
V. Fotak, W. Megginson and Miracky W., FEEM Note di Lavoro 22.2009.
"Capital structure and regulation: does ownership matter?", by B. Bortolotti, C. Cambini, L. Rondi, and Spiegel
Y., Journal of Economics and Management Strategy (forthcoming).
"The rise of accelerated seasoned equity underwritings", by B. Bortolotti, W. Megginson and Smart S., Journal
of Applied Corporate Finance, 3, 35-57, 2008.
"Government control of privatized firms", by B. Bortolotti and Faccio M., Review of Financial Studies, 1, 1-33,
2008.
"From government to regulatory governance: privatization and the residual role of the State", by B. Bortolotti
and Perotti E., World Bank Research Observer, 22, 1, 53-66, 2007.
"Reluctant Privatization", by B. Bortolotti and Faccio M., FEEM Note di Lavoro 130.2004 and CEI Working
Paper Series, 2006-5, 1-50, 2006.
"Italy’s Privatization Process and its Implications for China", by Bernardo Bortolotti, FEEM Note di Lavoro
118.2005.
"Privatization Barometer" annual reports and newsletters; "SWF Reports".
(Milan, September 2014)