Senior Advisor at Market and Payment Systems Oversight Department at Banca d’Italia.
From 2020 to 2025, Financial Attaché at the Italian Embassy in Abu Dhabi and Bank of Italy Representative for the GCC countries.
She has been covering issues related to Arab economies and Islamic finance for the Bank of Italy’s International Relations and Economics Directorate.
Faculty member of the Master MISLAM “Politics and Management in the Middle East and North Africa” (Teaching “Islamic Finance”), and from 2025 of the Master “Mediterranean Cooperation and Security” (Teaching “Finance, Trade and Law in the Mediterranean”) at LUISS SoG, Rome, Italy.
Co-author of Payment Systems in the Mediterranean Area in Banca d’Italia, Le economie del Mediterraneo (2000), Islamic finance and conventional financial systems. Market trends, supervisory perspectives and implications for central banking activity, Bank of Italy Occasional Paper n. 73 (2010), Islamic Finance in Europe, ECB Occasional Paper n. 46 (2013); Le prospettive di sviluppo della finanza islamica in Europa, in Guandalini, M. Uckmar, V. “Gulf&Me
