Matteo Millone is Assistant Professor in finance at VU University Amsterdam. He has a multidisciplinary background in Economics, Law and Political Science. His work is focused on banking in emerging countries and the interaction between social and financial performance at the level of both institutions and investors.

His work on benchmarking the performance of Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) has been published on World Development. He has also researched the effect of credit registries and credit bureaus on loan disbursement and performance in markets with high information asymmetries. He in currently interested in regulatory arbitrage in banking.