Executive Director

Fondazione Cariplo’s Executive Director Sergio Urbani is a pioneer of social housing in Italy. He started his work in the field with a Fondazione Cariplo’s pilot project which laid the groundwork for the formation in 2004 of Fondazione Housing Sociale, the social housing foundation sponsored by Fondazione Cariplo, Lombardy’s Regional Administration and the Association of local municipal governments.

While at Fondazione Housing Sociale, where he served as Board member and Managing Director until June 2012, Sergio Urbani launched numerous projects in social housing, an area which Fondazione Cariplo has always seen as strategic. Just to name a few of these efforts, Urbani launched the €85 million ethical real estate fund Abitare Sociale 1, which was the first Italian fund dedicated to social housing; the Parma Social House Fund; the Abitare Sostenibile Piemonte Fund; the Emilia Romagna Social Housing Fund; and other various initiatives in partnership with municipal administrations in Lombardy for the execution of social housing projects through the Abitare Sociale 1 Fund (now Fondo Immobiliare di Lombardia Fund and with an investment capacity of over 1 billion euros); social housing and student housing projects in Milan; feasibility studies for social housing projects across Italy. Sergio Urbani tested solutions and promoted innovation in the design and execution of residential development projects and related services as well.

From 2012 to 2014 he served as Co-General Manager of CDP Investimenti Sgr, the investment management company managing, among others, FIA, the about €2 billion social housing fund which is a key component of the integrated system of funds investing in social housing developments in Italy (SIF), where he handled the development of 41 projects across our country.

He is a member of the Board of REDO SGR, a benefit company which is owned by Fondazione Cariplo, Cassa Depositi e Prestiti, Banca Intesa Sanpaolo and Investire SGR, and operates in the fields of social housing, accredited student housing, and in the urban regeneration space in Lombardy and the provinces of Novara and Verbano Cusio Ossola.

In the past he also worked at ABN AMRO Corporate Finance (2000-2004), Deloitte&Touche Corporate Finance (1999-2000), Bankers Trust International and he was fellow at the Industrial and Commercial Companies division of Milan Bocconi University Department of Economics.

Sergio Urbani holds a degree in Business Administration from Milan Bocconi University.