Silvia Elisabetta Candini graduated in Political Economics from the L. Bocconi University of Milan.

After an initial experience at Lehman Brothers - London, in the “Mergers & Acquisitions” and “Equity and Fixed Income Origination” teams, in 1996 she joined J.P. Morgan, dealing with the structuring of bond issues for Italian banks and local authorities. Subsequently, she took on the role of Vice President, dealing with the sale of bond products to Italian banks and their foreign branches. Between October 2001 and December 2004, as Executive Director, she headed a team dedicated to the distribution of bond credit products and their derivatives to institutional customers in Italy. Subsequently, she also handled the development and distribution of fixed income and credit products to domestic corporate customers.

Since January 2009, she has provided independent financial and Family Office consultancy services through Studio C&C, of which she is a founding member and Senior partner.

Since July 2023, she has been an external member of the ESG Advisory Committee of ACP SGR.

From April 2016 to April 2019 she was an Independent Board Member, as well as a Member of the Nominations and Corporate Governance Committee and of the Remuneration Committee of Unipol Gruppo S.p.A. From February 2019 to April 2022, she was an Independent Board Member, Member of the Control, Risk and Sustainability Committee and of the Remuneration and Nominations Committee of Recordati S.p.A.

Since 2020 she has been a Director on the Board of BPER Banca S.p.A. within which, between 2021 and April 2024 she held the position of Chair of the Nominations and Corporate Governance Committee and previously, between 2020 and 2021, she was a member of the Nominations and Remuneration Committees. Since April 2024, she has been a Member of the Nominations and Corporate Governance Committee and a Member of the Related Parties Committee of BPER Banca S.p.A.