The IteraLab Faculty is composed of senior practitioners in their respective fields. They contribute to the programme alongside their professional activity — as speakers in the modules, or by taking part in the networking moments — and are invited edition by edition: the composition varies, the standard does not.
Each edition is built around ten modules: the brochure sets out the programme and the speakers confirmed for it.
He worked at the European Parliament for more than twenty-five years, first as a parliamentary assistant and then as an official in the Directorate-General for Communication, on information, communication and on projects and events aimed at students and young professionals. That experience is part of where the idea for IteraLab came from.
Co-founder of a Brussels-based strategic consultancy working in public affairs and institutional relations between Italy and the EU. Educated at the London School of Economics, he supports companies and organisations in reading European decision-making.
He spent more than thirty years as a permanent official of the European Commission, in the Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs, close to fifteen of them in management roles, alongside work of growing responsibility in human resources. He now advises independently on EU affairs.
He has been the energy and atomic questions expert at the Italian Permanent Representation to the EU since 2023. He spent almost nine years at the European Commission, first as a seconded national expert at the Energy Directorate of DG RTD, and was Italy's delegate to the Nuclear Law Committee of the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency. He is a senior officer of ENEA.
She leads the policy department of a Brussels-based public affairs consultancy, coordinating the firm's main portfolios with a particular focus on digital files. Before moving into European public affairs she worked on social issues, coordinating a civic movement and a local association.
Partner at a Brussels-based executive search firm recruiting profiles in advanced technology and general management. Former Secretary General of E.DSO and head of Enel Group's European public affairs. His career also includes twelve years at Fiat and fifteen in economic journalism.
He is Senior Partner at IDP European Consultants, a consulting and training firm specialised in EU funding programmes and financial instruments. An expert in European project design since 2008, he works on international partnerships and access to EU funding. He has been an external expert and evaluator for the European Commission, and advised the World Bank for fifteen years.
From Brussels he leads the European institutional relations of Italy's electricity transmission operator, he acts as Secretary General of Gruppo d’Iniziativa Italiana and sits on the board of APRII. He previously spent eleven years with the Eni group, where he was head of relations with the European Parliament.
He founded MUST & Partners in 2014 and has more than twenty years of experience in European affairs, having started in Brussels as a staffer at the European Parliament. He teaches European lobbying in several Italian universities and institutes, and serves as Vice-President of APRII.
She has headed the European Parliament's Services and Media Unit since 2018, after an internal career as editorial coordinator and as press officer and web manager to the President of the European Parliament. She arrived in Brussels in 2004, working in the Council's press office, then for Members of the Parliament, and from 2007 to 2012 as Policy Adviser at CER.
He leads the policy and advocacy department of the European Food Banks Federation in Brussels, coordinating its advocacy strategy and institutional relations. A lawyer, he served two terms as a Member of the European Parliament from 2014 to 2024, working on human rights, development cooperation, industry and energy.
He has worked in European affairs for more than twenty-five years, on institutional strategy, EU policymaking and public affairs. Before leading the Veneto Region’s Brussels office he spent eight years at the Permanent Representation of Italy to the EU, mainly on competition, State aid and the internal market. He has led institutional offices and managed EU-funded initiatives with public authorities, universities and research organisations.
He is a partner at Forward Global in Brussels, where he works on public affairs strategy, with a focus on competition and antitrust, digital policy and transport. Before moving into consultancy he spent more than fifteen years at the European Parliament, working with the committees on economic affairs, trade and transport. He has followed the EU’s digital antitrust files since 2012.
He has headed the secretariat of Europe’s largest network of technology SMEs since 2008, representing some 45,000 companies before the EU institutions on cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, data and standards. He is Vice Chair of the General Assembly of ETSI and sits on the board of ECSO, and he co-founded the EuroStack movement for European digital sovereignty.
