My Job
As a public affairs Partner, I advise senior management on how to harness the European and Member State regulatory frameworks to accelerate business growth. I guide clients through complex competition, state aid, and merger cases, ensuring effective engagement with institutions and market stakeholders through targeted public affairs campaigns across digital and traditional media. Drawing on a multifaceted career spanning roles as a competition enforcer and lawyer, I provide strategic advice that empowers clients in their interactions with EU institutions, delivering both regulatory expertise and market insight.
My Experience
I have extensive experience in advising companies on European competition and state aid policy, foreign subsidies regulation, investment screening, and regulatory affairs in the telecommunications and energy sector. Before joining Kreab, I worked as a Senior Associate lawyer in a Brussels law firm. I have also worked at the Italian Competition Authority and the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Competition. An Italian national, I hold a law degree from La Sapienza in Rome, and a Master’s degree in European policies from Louvain La Neuve, Belgium.
My Specialisms
My Proudest Achievements
I make sure that a client could take and implement the most appropriate investment decision in a very complex business and political environment. When our client, a multinational energy company, faced a State aid complaint regarding an electricity sales agreement, we devised and executed a comprehensive public affairs strategy to protect their critical infrastructure investments. We recognized the immediate need to fundamentally shift the political and regulatory narrative.
Through our targeted stakeholder engagement initiatives, we successfully positioned the client as a vital partner in maintaining European energy independence and regional market stability. We facilitated critical dialogues that persuaded numerous European Union decision-makers to recognize the indispensable role of the thermal power plant within the national and regional electricity market, effectively mitigating the initial environmental criticisms and favoured a constructive, negotiated resolution to the dispute.
My Education
- Law degree, La Sapienza University, Rome
- Exam to become member of the Bar of Rome
- Master’s degree in European policies, Louvain La Neuve University, Belgium
My Languages
Italian, English, French.
My Interests outside work
- Cycling
- Gardening
- Reading
- Cooking lasagna
My Favourite Brussels anecdote
When I was an enforcer at the Italian Competition Authority, I came to Brussels for a hearing on an antitrust case. It was my first time in Brussels, it was mid-June and I was not prepared for Brussels’ weather conditions. I was thus dressed as people are dressed in Italy during summer. Unfortunately, in Brussels it was very cold, and I was freezing. At a certain moment, the hearing officer looked at me and asked me why I was dressed too lightly. I replied: “it is summer in Italy!”. He looked at me and added: “not yet in Brussels”. Since then I learned to get dressed in layers: “the Brussels way!”