Simone Filippetti

Graduated in Archaeology, he joined the newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore as a reporter. In the last 16 years he has covered finance & markets, reporting on the most important Italian business families. In recent times he has started covering business stories about the Arabian Peninsula. In 2014 he published the book “Serenissimi Affari”, a controversial history of the Veneto Region businessmen. In 2016 he was awarded the “State Street” prize for the best investigative journalism.

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