School of Arts
Giada Vercelli
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Key information
Key information
- Roles
- School of Arts PhD researcher
- Department
- School of Arts
- Qualifications
- MA History of Art and Archaeology of East Asia, BSc Politics and Journalism
- Email address
- 674843@soas.ac.uk
- Thesis title
- Reassessing Chinoiserie: ornamental, didactic, or admonitory? Wilderness and the Regimes of Botany and Zoology in an eighteenth-century Sabaudian room ‘alla foggia chinese’.
- Internal Supervisors
- Professor Anna Contadini & Professor Stacey Pierson
Biography
Giada Vercelli is a Ph.D. student at the Department of History of Art and Archaeology, SOAS, University of London, where she also completed her MA in History of Art and Archaeology of East Asia in 2020.
She graduated in Journalism and Politics at the faculty of Political Sciences of the Università degli Studi di Genova, Italy in 1997. Her PhD project, entitled ‘Reassessing Chinoiserie’, deals with cross-cultural artistic exchanges within eighteenth-century Europe, exploring the semiotic value of the integration of East Asian decorative motifs in western royal palaces. Giada is a co-editor for the SJPR, SOAS journal of postgraduate research.
The award-winning author of a book on the role of women in the 2008 financial crisis (Rizzoli, 2009), she has promoted financial literacy and inclusion for over two decades as a financial journalist on Wall Street and in the City of London. Her book, presented at the Italian Senate, encouraged the parliamentary debate on gender quotas. She has served as global co-chair of WINS, McGraw-Hill’s diversity network, connecting eighty chapters of women professionals around the world. As news correspondent at TV anchor for Bloomberg TV and Sky TV, she has covered the financial markets from the NYSE and the Nasdaq and major international events, including US presidential elections and FED and IMF meetings. For the credit rating agency S&P’s she has designed and developed a multi-media platform broadcasting from NY, London, and Singapore.
As Director of Content at Euromoney, Giada has worked with the Ministry of Finance of sovereign governments in Europe, Asia, Middle East, and Africa and with supranational organisations such as the OECD, EBRD, and the World Bank. Giada, who speaks four European languages, is based in London, UK with her family and her beloved Cavalier King Charles.
Research interests
Cross-cultural artistic exchanges within Eighteenth-century Europe, exploring the semiotic value of East Asian decorative motifs in western royal palaces.
