Expert engineer and civil servant of the National Civil protection Department of Italy, where she has worked for over 20 years in a variety of forecasting, training and senior roles in the field of operational hydrology and development of Early Warning System with a multi-disciplinary approach. Responsible for the coordination of research activities, author of scientific publications and designer of information systems for meteo-hydro monitoring and risk assessment, expert in international capacity building and technical assistance projects in disaster risk reduction. She has served in a variety of international and WMO bodies, where she has been involved since 2011, primarily through the former Commission for Hydrology, then in the SERCOM since its establishment, and also as Regional Hydrological Adviser of RAVI-Europe since 2018.