Jacopo Ponticelli is Merrill Lynch Capital Markets Associate Professor of Finance (with tenure) at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. He is an applied economist who primarily studies corporate finance, banking and development economics, with a particular focus on firms in developing countries and the role played by financial markets and institutions in the process of economic development. His work has been published in top economics and finance journals, including the American Economic Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Financial Economics and the Review of Financial Studies. Starting in 2024, he has been serving as Editor at the Review of Finance. Before joining the Kellogg School of Management, he served as an Assistant Professor of Finance and Cohen and Keenoy Scholar at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Professor Ponticelli holds a PhD in Economics from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Spain).