Gilda Sophie Prestipino is an Academic Fellow at the Rock Center for Corporate Governance. Her research interests include corporate law and governance, bank governance, and financial regulation.

Prior to joining the Rock Center, Gilda was a corporate associate at Kirkland & Ellis LLP in New York (2022-24). Her practice focused on the formation of private equity funds, mergers and acquisitions involving public and private investment management firms, and shareholder activism and hostile takeover defenses. She began her professional career at the European Central Bank (2018-2021), where she supervised significant banking institutions in the Eurozone and worked on macroprudential policy.

Gilda holds an LL.M. in Corporate Governance and Practice from Stanford Law School, and a J.D. equivalent (summa cum laude) from the University of Siena. She has received a number of recognitions and awards, including the Franco Bonelli Scholarship (full merit-based funding for an LL.M., awarded by Italian law firm BonelliErede), and the John Hart Ely Prize for Outstanding Performance in Corporate Governance and Practice. While at Stanford Law School, she served as an associate editor of the Stanford Journal of Law, Business and Finance. Her article “U.S. Corporate Accountability in the ESG Era” was selected for presentation at the European Corporate Governance Institute Young Scholars Workshop on Corporate Purpose (Copenhagen, 2023).