Dr Ventura is the Prince of Wales Global Sustainability Fellow in Business Transformation and New Corporate Forms, supported by Anglian Water Services.
Livia joined CISL in December 2021 as a Senior Research Associate, working on corporate governance and the development of a comprehensive legal framework for sustainable organisations. She applies a legal lens to business transformation with a view to fostering policy recommendations.
Livia is an attorney at law with an academic background in both comparative and company law. She holds a PhD in Comparative and Uniform Business Law from Sapienza University of Rome (2013) and earned her second doctoral degree (S.J.D. - Doctor of Juridical Science) from Temple University Beasley School of Law in 2018. Her studies focus on the use of business as a force for an equal and inclusive economic growth. Livia has previously served as a member of the working group for the drafting of a parliamentary initiative bill on the introduction of the ‘benefit corporation’ model in Italy. She is an Adjunct Professor of Private Comparative Law at the LUISS Guido Carli Department of Law in Rome, and an Academic Fellow of the Geneva Centre for Philanthropy. In addition to several articles in Italian and international law reviews, Livia is the author of a book on The Use of ‘Internal’ Asset Partitioning in Business Law: A Comparative Overview (2019).
