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{{short description|'''Trustee of the Hudson Institute; formerly a senior banker at UBS, Deutsche Bank and Merrill Lynch'''}}
{{Infobox person
| name         = Michael L. Santini
| occupation   = Investment banker
| known_for    = Trustee of the [[Hudson Institute]]; formerly a senior banker at [[UBS]], [[Deutsche Bank]] and [[Merrill Lynch]]
| education    = B.A. in economics, University of California, Santa Barbara; M.B.A., UCLA Anderson School of Management
| nationality  = United States
}}
'''Michael L. Santini''' is an American investment banker. An official [[Hudson Institute]] biography describes him as a trustee at Hudson Institute. The organisation's official board-of-trustees listing on the same date names Michael L. Santini as a trustee. The body of the official biography uses the name-form Michael Santini.<ref name="HudsonSantini">Hudson Institute, [https://www.hudson.org/experts/michael-santini Michael L. Santini], official biography, accessed 11 November 2026.</ref><ref name="HudsonBoard">Hudson Institute, [https://www.hudson.org/about/board-of-trustees Board of Trustees], official listing, accessed 11 November 2026.</ref>

== Hudson Institute ==
The official Hudson Institute biography, retrieved on 11 November 2026, describes him as a trustee at Hudson Institute. The official board listing names Michael L. Santini as a trustee. The official "trustee" wording and the two official name-forms are all stated.<ref name="HudsonSantini" /><ref name="HudsonBoard" />

Hudson files IRS returns under the name Hudson Institute Inc, Employer Identification Number 13-1945157. ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer's compilation of those returns, opened on 11 November 2026, lists Michael L Santini as trustee, with reportable compensation of $0 from the organisation, on the Form 990 for the year ended 31 December 2024, filed on 27 June 2025. He does not appear on the extracted 2025 list, on which other unpaid officers are listed, or on the extracted lists for 2015–2023. The official "trustee" wording and the extracted filing title and name-form are both stated. The compilation does not include extracted officer tables for the 2014 and earlier returns, so a filing line before 2015 is not claimed from those extracts.<ref name="HudsonSantini" /><ref name="PPHudson">ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer, [https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/131945157 Hudson Institute Inc (EIN 13-1945157)], compilation of Form 990 filings, accessed 11 November 2026.</ref>

== Career and education ==
The official Hudson biography records that he served in senior roles at [[Merrill Lynch]] & Co., [[Deutsche Bank]] and [[UBS|UBS Group]] from 1994 to 2024. It states that he was a senior banker and leader with UBS Group AG from 2017 until early 2024, that he joined as a group managing director and executive vice chairman of UBS Investment Bank, that in late 2017 he was promoted to executive chairman of UBS Global Banking, and that he was a member of the global banking management committee from 2017 to 2023. It records that, before joining UBS, he was the global head of the industrials corporate and investment bank at Deutsche Bank from 2009 to 2016, and that in 2016 he was promoted to vice chairman of corporate finance Americas and served as a member of the CIB executive committee in the Americas. It states that he was with Merrill Lynch & Co. from 1994 to 2009, that he was promoted to managing director in late 2002, and that in 2007 he was named co-head of the multi-industry group and became a member of the Americas investment banking management committee.<ref name="HudsonSantini" />

The official biography records that he received an M.B.A. from the Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA in 1994 and a B.A. in economics from UC Santa Barbara in 1990, and that he completed UCLA Anderson's executive education corporate governance programme for directors in 2021. It states that he was a member of the Board of Visitors of Howard University's School of Business from 2006 to 2012, and a member of the board of trustees of UBS Americas' political action committee from 2021 to 2023.<ref name="HudsonSantini" />

== External links ==
* [https://www.hudson.org/experts/michael-santini Hudson Institute, official biography]
* [https://www.hudson.org/about/board-of-trustees Hudson Institute, Board of Trustees]
* [https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/131945157 ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer, Hudson Institute Inc (EIN 13-1945157)]

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