Former PhD students and first academic placements where available.
- Loriano Mancini — EPFL
- Paolo Porchia — Instituto de Empresa
- Andrea Vedolin — London School of Economics
- Davide La Vecchia — Monash University
- Alberto Piatti — SUPSI
- Lorenzo Camponovo — University of St. Gallen
- Anna Cieslak — Northwestern University
- Pavol Povala — Birkbeck, University of London
- Ilaria Piatti — Saïd Business School, Oxford
- Peter Gruber — USI and SUPSI
- Piotrek Orlowski — HEC Montréal
- Mirela Sandulescu — University of Michigan
- Alberto Quaini — Erasmus University Rotterdam
- Sofonias Korsaye — Johns Hopkins University
- Andrea Maino — completed 2024
- Alessandro Crescini — University of Geneva, SFI PhD student, in progress