About Giorgio Afferni

Giorgio Afferni is the managing partner of Delex and professor of private law at the University of Genoa. He studied at Harvard Law School and the University of Pisa. He is recognised as one of the leading experts in collective litigation in Italy, having litigated some of the most important collective actions in competition law, consumer law and financial markets. He was a member of the Financial Ombudsman of the Italian Securities and Exchange Commission. He advised the Ministry of Justice on the transition from the old to the new class action regime in Italy, and the Italian parliament on the transposition of the EU directive on representative actions.