Born in Taranto, in the south of Italy, she studied and graduated in Law at the University of Bologna. During her Erasmus year at the University of Canterbury, Kent, UK, she had the opportunity to study International Business Transaction and got fond of Maritime Law. She then moved back to her hometown and started working for a General ContractorCompany whose clients was, amongst many others, Evergreen Marine corp. who opened the Taranto Container Terminal in the early 2000s.

She then worked for the Port Authority of Brindisi (merged in 2016 with theports of Bari, Manfredonia, Barletta, Monopoli and Termoli under thePort Network Authority of the Southern Adriatic Sea) filling differentpositions such as Tender and ProcurementManager, Marketing andPromotion and also Operational manager for cruises and ferries in thePort of Brindisi.

From 2017 to 2021 she was Vice President and BoardMember of MedCruise–the Association of Cruise Ports in theMediterranean and adjoining seas. Since March 2024 she is Director ofGeneral and International Affairs in the Port Network Authority of theIonian Sea, also representing the Port of Taranto in the Board of Directors of MedCruise where she has also been appointed Vice President since September 2024. She has also recently registered as a Lawyer and gained a 2nd level Master Degree in “Port City Relationship”

“In recent years, as per direct experience, we realised how crucial it is for everybody at all levels to be a part of a network, a team, a crew! And as a consequence, we also became aware of the human value of associations, especially international ones – as MedCruise is – in bridging people who are geographically distant but feel emotionally close. As a result, MedCruise Association has been a driver for development, bringing about new opportunities for the members of the cruise industry and encouraging the exchange of best practices among cruise-port cities all over the world.
Given their position at the edge of water and land, port-cities are responsible for keeping the continuum from sea to land, facilitating the flows of people, information, goods and thoughts, thus playing an outstanding role in enhancing the bilateral dialogue between their neighbouring community and the people living, working, and acting overseas.
Port citizens are naturally endowed with particular shared values: a special, unique mindset that stems from an innate sense of respect for diversity, enabling them (us) to cope with anthropic challenges as seafarers face sealife dangers.

The new challenge for port-cities, especially as far as the cruise sector is concerned, is to find out the correct language to convey and spread the awareness of an innovative sustainable way of enjoying sea- tourism, educating stakeholders and passengers through a conscious understanding of their role and commitment within the cruise industry.

The task, or better said, the duty is to carry out, together, the promotion of sustainable cruise tourism. Furthermore, to provide a long-lasting source of inspiration based on a mutual understanding of a new philosophy laying on the cohesion between the port and the city to build a “governance of cruise ports” through citizens/stakeholders engagement.

Let’s make it crystalline, make it wise, make it visible and make it happen!”

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