Cecilia del Barrio Arleo has been awarded her PhD from the School of International Studies of the University of Trento in 2020. Her dissertation focuses on the transformation of banking supervision and supervisory practices in the Eurozone since the establishment of the Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM), and the ways through which the SSM fosters supervisory consistency amidst diversity.

Her research lies at the interface of banking and financial regulation, social sciences, and regulatory studies. She holds an LLM in Comparative Law, Economics, and Finance from the International University College of Turin (Italy), and a law degree from the Catholic University of Argentina.

Cecilia currently works at the European Central Bank, where she serves as a banking supervisor at the SSM and is also a member of the European Banking Institute’s Associate Researchers Group (EBI ARG).