At 16 he was an AFS scholar, lived for a year in the United States and gained a US High School diploma.
He also completed executives programs in leadership and public policies at the Harvard Kennedy School, at the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs of Yale University and at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy of Singapore He has 20 years of professional experience, primarily in investment banking in New York City with JP Morgan and in Milan with Mediobanca.
He is affiliated with the School of Advanced International Studies of the Johns Hopkins University in Washington, DC.
He currently teaches International Economics at University LUISS Guido Carli in Rome [6] and at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan.
He is a member of several think-tanks: Aspen Institute, Chatham House, IAI - International Affairs Institute, Young Leaders of the Council on Relations for the US and Italy, The Economic Club of New York Magnani has a column (Letters from Cambridge, Massachusetts) on Italian financial newspaper IlSole24Ore and writes for AffarInternazionali and other newspapers, magazines and websites.