Antonio Marcacci is Vice President at the Compliance Function of an EU Global Systemically Important Bank and Lecturer (Lehrbeauftragter) at the University of Passau, Germany, and at the University of Leipzig, Germany, where he gives courses in EU, US, and Chinese Banking and Financial Law. Antonio was awarded a PhD in Law by the European University Institute (EUI), Florence. During his PhD, Antonio visited the Faculty of Law of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Germany) and the Law School of the University of Wisconsin-Madison (United States) for exchange programs, and had a short term temporary appointment at the World Bank in Washington, DC (United States). In his private sector experience, Antonio has worked in Europe (Milan and Munich), the Middle East (Abu Dhabi), and China (Shanghai). Alongside academic teaching, Antonio provides professional compliance training. Interested in the interface between academic research and professional banking and finance, Antonio has published several articles in leading journals, chapters in books edited by outstanding scholars, and a monograph with Palgrave Macmillan.