Davide Taliente
Davide Taliente is a Partner for Oliver Wyman and Head of the firm’s Public Policy practice in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) - previously Region Head for the Financial Services division in EMEA.
Since joining Oliver Wyman in 1990 Davide has advised major universal and investment banks, Private Equity firms, Exchanges/CSDs, global investors and service providers to Financial Services firms (e.g. technology specialists, data vendors) in developing effective responses to market, competitor and regulatory evolution. He specialises in advising senior executives at these clients on strategy, organisational effectiveness, risk management and performance management/measurement issues across the full product/client spectrum. In his Public Policy capacity, he is responsible for Oliver Wyman’s financial services work with national regulators, international bodies (e.g. Financial Stability Forum, IIF, EU), Treasuries (e.g. FS investment criteria/governance, intervention policies and options, alternative forms of market support) and Central Banks in EMEA.
Most recently, Davide has co-authored the report, "India Financial Services: Good Long-Term potential - but structural Weaknesses Need to be Addressed".
In July 2007, Davide was elected as one of the Top 25 management consultants globally by Consulting Magazine. He authored the closing chapter in special edition of International Finance Review (January 2009) examining management conduct / failures that led to the crisis and likely future financial services competitive structure.
Prior to joining Oliver Wyman, Davide worked at JP Morgan Investment Management and with the European Commission (DGII, Economic and Financial affairs).
Davide holds a M. Phil. degree in economics and a BA in physics from Oxford University. He is fluent in English, French, Italian and Spanish.