Doctorate in Communications (University of Bologna; Maxima cum Laude; thesis under the direction of Prof. Umberto Eco; the thesis has been published by ISSA/Univ. of Amsterdam with the title: “How to do things – and lead people – with words. A semiotic hypothesis on Argumentation in Business Communications”). Master in International Relations (University of Brussels-ULB); Master in Economics (London School of Economics).
Executive Director of NESMA, the worldwide network for the communication of philanthropy and for the international collaboration among socially responsible entrepreneurs. Communication Executive and Policy Adviser, for the European Parliament, European Commission, several Foundations.
She taught “European Union policies and decision-making processes” at the University of Leuven (Belgium), and “European Union Communications” at IULM (University of Milan). She gave lectures and workshops at the Universities of Amsterdam (NL), Groeningen (NL), Bocconi of Milan (I), Siena (I), Macerata (I), Havana (Cuba), Salamanca (Spain), Stellenbosch (South Africa), and at the Conference of Rectors of Italian Universities.
She has been conducting studies and research projects requested by the European Parliament in the framework of the legislative procedure (all published by the EP in the series “Working Papers”). She worked at the European Commission, as Political Adviser.
She started her professional activities as a Researcher at the University of Bologna. She published academic essays (on Communications, Media Analysis, New Media, Rational persuasion techniques; and on European Union communications, EU policies for the Information Society; EU decision-making processes; Governmental Relations with the EU, etc). She is the author of a number of books on current issues (Migrations, Islam/Europe relations).
We raise by lifting others.
Quotations:
“E senti allora,
se pure ti ripetono che puoi
fermarti a mezza via o in alto mare,
che non c’è sosta per noi,
ma strada, ancora strada,
e che il cammino è sempre da ricominciare”,
Eugenio Montale, Poesie Disperse
