General Counsel of the ECB, ECB agent for the cases in front of the ECJ. Married, mother of 4 children.
PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND:
1989 - 1993 Member of the Legal Service of the Council of the Union - Brussels
1994 - 1997 Lecturer of European Community Law at the Johann-Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt
Member of the Bar of Parma (Italy)
1995 - 1998 Senior Legal Counsel of the EMI
1998 - 2013 Head of Division and Deputy General Counsel of the ECB
Since 2013 General Counsel of the ECB
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND:
Graduate in Law ("dottore in legge"), Università degli Studi di Parma, 1984.
Master "Giurista d’impresa", S.P.I.S.A., Università degli Studi di Bologna, 1985.
LL.M. Harvard Law School, 1990.
Ph.D. in International, Community and Comparative Law at the European University Institute of Florence, 1992.
Fulbright scholar (1988-1990)
Visiting scholar at the Max-Planck-Institut Heidelberg (1991-1992)
Alexander von Humboldt scholar (1994-1995)
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