Born in Livorno in 1962. She graduated in Statistics and Economics from the University of Bologna with honours. She has been a Director of Italgas SpA since 1 March 2022. From January 1988 to March 1995, she was a management consultant dealing with projects in the areas of Strategy, Marketing and Organisation for large clients operating mainly in the transport, construction, IT and government run sectors. In 1995, she joined the Ferrovie dello Stato Group where she was first Head of Marketing in the Commercial department (TAV - high-speed train), then Director of Strategy and Planning (RFI - Italian Railway Network) and, finally, Central Director of Strategy, Planning and Systems until December 2015 (FS - State Railway). From December 2015 to September 2017, she was Chief Executive Officer and General Manager of Trenitalia SpA of which she had already been a Board member since August 2012. In 2017, she returned to Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane S.p.A. as Central Director of Governance for Foreign Investments, a position she held until December 2018. She was a member of various Boards of Directors, also serving as Chair, of FS Group companies in Italy and abroad. Former member of several committees of Confindustria, a member of the Infrastructure Commission, Project Manager of the European Performance Regime project and Chair of the High Level Passenger Meeting of the UIC (Union Internationale des Chemins de fer), and Chair of the Technical Group Infrastructure for transport and logistics of Unindustria Lazio. She has been appointed as a lecturer in the postgraduate degree programme “Engineering of Infrastructure Networks and Logistics” at the Pegaso Telematic University and she was a member of the LUMSA Advisory Board from May 2017 to January 2023. She served as General Manager of the Abruzzo Region from September 2019 to February 2022, and has been an executive of the Italgas group since March 2022. Also in 2022, she was appointed CEO of the Greek company DEPA Infrastructure Single member S.A., now Enaon Sustainable Networks Single member S.A. (September), Member of Board of Directors’ of Italgas Newco S.p.A. (September) and Finint Infrastrutture SGR Società di gestione del risparmio SpA (October).
Since 24 June 2020, she has been an Independent Member of Board of Directors’ of Rai Way S.p.A. Until 27 April 2023, she was a member of the Control and Risk and Sustainability Committee and then, as at present, of the Remuneration and Appointments Committee.