Carlo Sala is an Associate Professor of Finance in the Department of Economics, Finance, and Accounting at ESADE Business School. He also serves as the Director of the M.Sc. in Finance program.

Carlo holds a Ph.D. in Finance from the Swiss Finance Institute (SFI), earned at the University of Lugano (Switzerland) under the supervision of Professor Barone Adesi. In recent years, he has been invited as a visiting researcher at esteemed institutions including the University of Oxford (UK), University of Oslo (Norway), University of New South Wales (Australia), Aalto Business School (Finland), Laval University (Canada), and the University of Milano Bicocca (Italy).

His research and publications primarily focus on option pricing, risk management, econometrics, and mathematical finance.

At ESADE, Carlo teaches various courses, including Derivatives (master), Asset pricing (master and bachelor), Finance Theory (Ph.D.), Continuous and Discrete Pricing in Finance (Ph.D.), and Fintech (Executive education). He also delivers courses for the European Union and other universities worldwide.

Carlo is the co-founder of Kakubi and brings his expertise as a private consultant in the risk management sector. Among his notable achievements, he designed and implemented a CDS-based ad-hoc risk model for the Milan branch of the international fund CO.MO.I. Prior to this, he worked as a consultant in financial markets at Accenture and later as a quantitative analyst in the European gas and power market.