Luca Bernardinetti is Chairman and Managing Partner of the Mahanakorn Partners Group. He leads the Banking & Finance division at MPG, which provides trade finance, corporate finance and project finance advice, as well as legal advice for cross-border financing. Over the past two decades, Luca Bernardinetti has led his team in structuring equity and debt financing for infrastructure and Public-Private Partnership projects, working alongside highly rated banks and insurance providers. Under his expertise and leadership, MPG has successfully undertaken several complex financing transactions, assisting private multinationals, state-owned enterprises and government agencies to secure multi-billion dollar lines of credit for infrastructure development projects.

Luca Bernardinetti is Advisor of the Public Debt Management Office of the Ministry of Finance of Thailand and Member of Thailand International Chamber of Commerce’s Commission on Banking Technique & Practices. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Thai-Italian Chamber of Commerce and serves as Chairman of the Business Economics Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce in Thailand (AmCham). Luca Bernardinetti is in high demand as a guest lecturer and speaker at top ASEAN universities, such as Chulalongkorn University and National University of Singapore. He has enjoyed speaking at many international forums and events, including those organized by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN ESCAP). He is a consummate media commentator, having given interviews to prominent global news outlets, such as BBC World Business Report, CNN and The New York Times, on matters of business, economics and finance, on numerous occasions.