A lawyer licensed in Italy, Donatella Favalli spent a number of years working in an international law firm before joining an Italian multinational corporation as a corporate lawyer. Since 2006 she has been working in Switzerland and has accumulated wide-ranging experience of both the legal and compliance aspects of the banking sector, initially as a Senior Legal Officer at a leading banking group, and later as Head of the Legal and Compliance unit of a securities dealer. Prior to joining BRP, she was a member of the Executive Committee of a Swiss bank in the management role of supervisor of the legal and compliance function.