Antonella is a strategist and businesswoman with deep experience in the global media, technology and consumer sectors, both as advisor and executive. She studied Business Administration at the LMU Munich and at the Universitá degli Studi di Roma and holds an MBA with the Dean's List Award of INSEAD. She started her career at the The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) where she became the youngest partner and first female Senior Partner & Director in Germany, holding key management positions in Europe and globally, also as member of BCG's Global Executive Committee. She wrote many thought pieces on key management issues and a collection of her essays was published in the book „Acupuncture for Management ". She was recognized by Forbes as Junior manager of the year and by Consulting Magazine with the lifetime achievement award. In 2018 she joined the government of Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz as Special Advisor and Head of ThinkAustria, the Special Projects Unit, and later as Co-Head of the Austrian CovidFutureOperations Task Force until 2022. On behalf of the Austrian Government, she continues to serve as Chairwoman of the KofiAnnanAward for Innovation in Africa, a joint initiative of the African and European Union. Antonella currently serves as Executive Vice-Chairwoman of Pochtler Industrieholding and as Non-Executive Director of Publicis SA, of Westwing SE, and of Eni Plenitude SpA, as well as of Generali Group S.p.A. , where she is the Chair of its Investment Committee. Her involvement in a range of social causes, particularly regarding equity in education led to the co-founding of the award-winning education project Business@School and of the Phorms School Network in Germany, and to a long-time advisory board role at Teach for All. A strong believer in Europe's unique strengths and values, Antonella supports various European initiatives to foster tech innovation and European sovereignty, among others as scientific board member of the Drucker Forum, as board member of the European Forum Alpbach and since 2022 as advisory board member of TUMVentureLabs. Antonella is a Fellow of Salzburg Global.