Political economist working on future challenges by looking at the past​​

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​🌊 Originally from Venice, born in 1995, I moved to Berlin at 21 to pursue a Master of International Affairs at the Hertie School. After a short babysitting experience in my teenage years (for Philippe Starck's daughters, not sure they remember me now!),  I started working at 22/23: I used scholarships to pay for most of my living expenses in Berlin, as well as during my exchange at the Graduate Institute in Geneva, and gained practical experience at the Italian Office of the Council of Europe during my master studies between Germany and Switzerland.

 

👩🏼‍💻 I also learnt how to create a blog during my time in Berlin at the age of 22 and then at 25 I learnt the basics of front-end-development with an online course and then kept practicing by myself during the Covid-19 lockdown when I was back in Italy. This is why the values that are dearest to my heart and motivate my work are health promotion as well as the empowerment of young women, specifically in the tech sector.

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📔 My research focuses on political economy at its intersection with security and tech. In 2020, under the supervision of Amb. Wolfgang Ischinger, I published a thesis proposing a novel model for assessing the effectiveness of sanctions by international organizations—applied to the Council of Europe–Russia crisis (2014–2019).

 

🏛️🇪🇺 After diplomatic training at Luiss Guido Carli in Rome (2021), I gained experience across EU institutions in Brussels, including the European Commission (2022), and served as Work Package leader for the Horizon-funded project XR4Human (2023).

 

✈️🌐 Awarded the Charlemagne Prize Fellowship (2023–2024), I focused on strategic consortia in aerospace and emerging tech. That research—again supported by Amb. Ischinger and enriched by insights from ESA, XR Association, IEEE-ISTO Masa, UNICRI and others—culminated in a Nash equilibrium-based function and model featured in the 2025 Report on the Future of the Union by the Charlemagne Prize Academy (full list of publications on "Google Scholar").

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Author and Artist

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🇮🇹 🖼️ In 2025 I published with Mondadori my first book: "Italian dream", which was included in their Oscar section (which in Italy are considered as the Oscar of the books) and branded as a bestseller already before it was published. For the book, I produced also an artwork which was placed on the cover: it was made by putting AI generated dates of Italian history on the Venus Italica by Canova, all framed inside a polaroid picture. Find the cover and book here.

🎶 To find more about the activity linked to my book, you can click on the button "Italia XXV" on this page. To find more about my inspiration, check out my Spotify playlists below.