Role
Head of the “Coordination of Support for Industrial Transition” Sector at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission and member of the Board of Directors of SVIMEZ.
Bio
Daria Ciriaci graduated in Political Science from the University of Rome La Sapienza and subsequently earned a PhD in Economics from the same university. She has worked as a researcher and consultant for SVIMEZ, where she is currently an independent member of the Board of Directors, and has taught and conducted research at LUISS University, John Cabot University, and the European Commission's Joint Research Centre.
She has held consultancy roles at the Inter-American Development Bank and was an official and Economic Adviser at the European Commission (DG ECFIN and Representation in Italy).
She headed European Affairs for the Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (CDP) Group, managing European institutional and political relations and overseeing strategic dossiers such as InvestEU and NextGenerationEU. During this period, she served as Vice-Chair of the European Long-Term Investors Association (ELTI) and a member of the InvestEU program Steering Board.
She is currently Head of Sector at the European Commission's Joint Research Centre, where she coordinates support for industrial transition at the intersection of research, economic analysis, and policy.