Marco Di Maggio is Ogunlesi Family Professor of Business Administration in the Finance Unit of HBS and a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Before joining HBS, he was a faculty member in the finance and economics department of Columbia Business School. Professor Di Maggio received a PhD in Economics from MIT.

In July 2022, he became Director of the newly created Fintech, Crypto and Web3 lab at Harvard. This is a cross-disciplinary lab with the mission to foster collaborations between the school and companies in this nascent industries and to improve our understanding of the opportunities and challenges.

​Professor Di Maggio’s current research focuses on financial intermediation with a particular focus on how new technologies have disrupted financial markets and its effects on firms and individuals.​

His work has been published in leading academic peer-reviewed journals such as the American Economic Review, Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, and has been widely cited by outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Bloomberg, Institutional Investor, CNBC, Slate and Forbes.

​He currently collaborates with several companies both in Traditional Finance and in Crypto/DeFi. 

In 2016, Poets and Quants named him to its list of the Best 40 Under 40 Business School Professors.