Support to Civil Society in Combatting corruption

Amedeo Rizzo is a Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) in Law at the University of Oxford, Exeter College, and Academic Tutor at St Catherine's College (Oxford). He is undertaking research activities on international corporate taxation and tax policy, under the supervision of Professor Tsilly Dagan.

He is an Academic Fellow at Bocconi University and SDA Bocconi School of Management, where he coordinates the Accounting & Tax Policy Observatory (OFC) and the Transfer Pricing Forum. He is a Transatlantic Technology Law Forum Fellow at the University of Stanford, doing research in Law and Technology. He is the Director of the Innovation Policy Network and a member of the Group of Experts on anti-corruption for Transparency International Italy, advising on corporate and tax law. He works as financial advisor for several companies and is one of the founding partners of the Italian audit company Imperium Audit SpA.

Previously, he worked for the Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs (DG ECFIN) of the European Commission as an external advisor on budget and tax policy, and for the International Tax and Transfer Pricing Team of Pricewaterhouse Coopers, Milan. He also collaborated with the Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability (CBGA), India, on financial transparency issues in Asia-Pacific countries.

As concerns his research activities, he is the author of papers published in national and international academic journals, such as International Tax Studies, International Transfer Pricing Journal, Fiscalità e Commercio Internazionale (Italian), and Novità Fiscali (Swiss), and technical newspapers such as We Wealth, which selected him for the top 300 wealth management influencers’ club. He participated in the publication of the book “Brexit: Scenari fiscali e opportunità per i professionisti italiani” published by IPSOA – Wolters Kluwer Italy and presented at the Camera dei Deputati, the Italian Chamber of Deputies.

Amedeo obtained a Master of Science in Taxation (with distinction) from the University of Oxford, a Master of Science in Law and Business Administration (summa cum laude) from Bocconi University, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration. He received the Bocconi - Boroli scholarship for being one of the best Bocconi graduates of 2017.

Economist

I am a Sustainable Development Practitioner with a diverse expanse of interests and subsequent expertise, which are founded on a keen understanding and appreciation for the significance attributed to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

A Master Degree Holder thoroughly familiar with various aspects of procurement, administration and management in both the private and public sectors, and in a highly professional and multi-language (Arabic, English, and French) environment.
Long experience in operations, procurement, logistics, administration and projects management,
Ability to handle organised knowledge, and to scan the organisational and subject matter environment,
Ability to work with senior people in a substantive way, applying interpersonal and organisational skills and maintaining productive relations with staff and people from other units and agencies,
Ability to manage various teams, assessing conflicting demands, determining priorities, following-up, ensuring that work is done correctly, meeting goals and on time.
I completed the following Certificates:
Strategic Diploma in Public Procurement, CIPS 4
The Leadership Development Pathway
Working at UNDP in Countries under crisis conditions, such as Syria and Lebanon, I was able to operate over a multitude of portfolios, projects and agencies, including the projects under fast track and those dealing with the Syrian crisis, with initiatives to resolve complex cases and fast effective delivery of Projects’ milestones.
With over 20 years of professional procurement experience, including 2 years’ experience as International Procurement Specialist at the UNDP Syria Office and 10 years of experience serving as the head of procurement unit at the UNDP Lebanon Country Office, I have directly supervised the offices procurement teams and managed the procurement processes of portfolios of several subprojects worth 100 of millions of dollars.
With the start of the Syrian crisis, I managed to adapt to the sudden increase in work volume whereby the UN is engaged in one of the largest crisis response operations in the world. From an average yearly delivery of around 20 million USD per year prior to the Syrian crisis, I managed the procurement operations worth around 65 million USD of delivery per year. This covers procurement related to small, medium, ad large scale physical infrastructure project, individual consultancies, as well as medium and large-scale services projects. This has contributed to the positioning of UNDP at the forefront of the response to the implications of the Syrian crisis
In the course of the challenging recent 4 years at the Banking Sector in Lebanon, and through my commitment and dedication, I was able to handle the extraordinary workload and huge number of administrative processes, despite the continuous new introduced changes to procedures and market crisis situation.
All tasks that I handled and managed at UNDP and then at the private sector, entailed dedicated efforts in executing transactions until reaching the requested results and outputs.

Criminologist, over 20 years of experience on corruption, financial crimes, environmental crimes.

Expert and passionate about International Relations, I would like to deepen my knowledge in geopolitics.
I hold a bachelor's degree in International and Diplomatic Affairs and a master's degree in European Studies and Politics.

Since 2021 I work in the European Commission in DG REFORM, the DG responsible for structural reforms in the EU Member States.

Actively studying Ukrainian since a year, I would like to work for UA access to EU and for its support in general.

In my free time I prepare marathons, I play guitar and I follow Fc Inter matches going often to the stadium in Milan :)