Biography

Anna Ferrari joined the European University Institute in 2023, as Project Assistant for the Centre of a Digital Society at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies.

She previously worked at the European Parliament in Brussels (until 2022), in different roles as staff and Parliamentary Assistant, including in a political group and national delegations (British and German), supporting the work in policy making, political communication and advocacy. She followed EU & national legislation mainly on the topics of environmental protection & climate action, gender equality, digital and democratic processes.

She also worked in journalism, in the global NGO sector, and briefly in the art sector and private TV sector. She lived and worked in five different EU countries, spending overall seven years outside Italy in an international context.

Ferrari holds a Law Degree (equivalent to Bachelor + Master) from the University of Milan (Università degli Studi, 2014) with a focus on EU law and thesis on cross-border healthcare in the EU member States. In addition, she is a graduate of the multicultural Erasmus Mundus Master in Journalism, Media and Globalisation with specialism in EU political communication (Aarhus University & University of Amsterdam, 2017) and a thesis on young Europeans’ electoral behaviours.

Research projects, clusters and working groups

• Review of the Integrated Postal Reform and Development Plan and Postal Reform Guide