Alessandra Poggiani is Director General of Cineca. 

She has more than twenty years of experience in the field of technological innovation and has collaborated with Italian web pioneers since the early days. She has been dealing with innovation in the public sector for over 20 years and has solid experience in the management of government-owned and in-house companies.  

She has been Administrative Director of Human Technopole, CEO and Managing Director of Venis s.p.a., Director General of the Agency for Digital Italy (AGID), CEO of Lait s.p.a., Head of Communication, Advocacy and External Relations of WWF International for the Mediterranean Program Office, Head of Corporate Online Communication of Enel s.p.a., and Head of Information of the Support and Monitoring Unit of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership for the Environment. 

She has always combined her professional work with academic positions, including Adjunct Professor of Business Communication and Innovation Marketing at the Faculty of Economics, Roma Tre University,  Visiting Lecturer in Digital Economics at the Business School of Imperial College London and Lecturer in Digital Communication Marketing and New Media Interfaces at the University of Rome La Sapienza, Lecturer of Digital Transformation for the Public Administration at the Business School of ca Foscari University  of Venice.  

She participates in several industry committees, including the Digital Economy Commission of the Italian section of the International Chamber of Commerce ICC (since 2016), the Advisory Board of “Digital Italy of the Innovation Group (since 2016) and the Innovation Board of the Ca’ Foscari Foundation (since 2017). 

Over the years, he has led and supervised several consulting and research projects about digital economy, collaborative innovation and new consumer behaviors and she is also the author of numerous articles and publications on the topics of digital transformation and public economy.