about
Roberta Cianetti is a strategic leader with a proven track record of delivering partnership and communications frameworks across international and multinational environments. She has extensive experience working with media organisations, institutional stakeholders and cross-functional teams in EU-facing and politically sensitive settings.
She currently serves as Senior Director at POLITICO Europe, the global authority on politics and policy, where she leads partnerships and integrated solutions supporting engagement with EU policy audiences and the broader Brussels ecosystem to deliver campaigns and events aligned with POLITICO’s mission and influence.
Her work has shaped the voice of global companies, reaching billions of consumers.
She led Global Social Strategy & Partnerships at Condé Nast, overseeing 30+ markets and legacy brands, including Vogue, The New Yorker, GQ, Vanity Fair, Wired, Architectural Digest (AD) and Condé Nast Traveler.
Earlier career spans media, communications agencies, digital strategy, public relations and event-led initiatives across editorial, business and institutional environments.
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Beyond her corporate responsibilities, she is actively engaged as a keynote speaker and moderator in international forums and postgraduate programmes, addressing digital transformation, emerging technologies, and the evolving intersection between AI, policy and governance in global and European contexts.
Her talks delve primarily into the topics of digital innovation, social media, policies and AI governance, dissecting the way platforms influence and compete with one another and examining the implications of a wider, global political scenario on technologies and platforms alike. She also discusses social media and mental health, gender equality and female leadership.
An accomplished scholar, she holds a bachelor’s degree (BA) summa cum laude from the University of Perugia and Turun Yliopisto. She furthered her interdisciplinary education in International Relations, Economics, Business Administration and Communications, with a postgraduate master in Media Relations from Il Sole 24ORE Business School, a Master of Arts (MA) from the University of Warwick and an Executive MBA with the highest distinction from Luiss Business School.