Pietro A. Bianchi Fedrigoni joined the Department of Accounting at Bocconi University in 2024. He previously held positions at Florida International University—where he was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2024—the University of South Florida, and the University of Miami. He earned his Ph.D. from IE Business School in Madrid.

His research spans auditing, corporate governance, and financial reporting quality, with a particular focus on private firms and an international perspective. A distinctive strand of his work examines how organized crime infiltrates corporate accounting and finance, combining archival evidence with social network analysis to map the relationships among auditors, directors, and firms. His studies have appeared in leading accounting journals, including the Journal of Accounting Research, The Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, and European Accounting Review, and have attracted coverage in the academic and business press.

Pietro is Editor of Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory and serves on the editorial boards of Contemporary Accounting Research, Accounting Horizons, and the Journal of Accounting and Public Policy. He has received multiple awards for his research, teaching, and service.

His teaching covers financial reporting (under both US GAAP and IFRS), financial statement analysis, and accounting for value, at the undergraduate and master's levels. Since September 2025, he has directed Bocconi's undergraduate program in Business Administration (Corso di Laurea in Economia Aziendale, CLEA).

Before entering academia, Pietro worked at several accounting firms in Milan. He is a licensed Chartered Accountant (Dottore Commercialista) and Statutory Auditor (Revisore dei Conti) in Italy.