Graduate in Political Science and specialized in European Studies, she has held many institutional positions including Director General of the Agency for Territorial Cohesion and, at the Ministry of Economic Development now MIMIT, of Industrial Policy. She is Co-president of the MENA-OECD Working Group for SMEs and entrepreneurship and Scientific Director of Forum PA for the implementation of the NRRP. Member of the Advisory Board of the Space Economy Observatory at PoliMi. Professor of Gender Policies at Universitas Mercatorum. Auditor.