Experience

Various online and print publications

• Writing and Editing
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Consultant

  • Dec 2022 - Present



FAO

• Italy
• Non-profit Organizations
• 700 & Above Employee

• Communications Officer

  • Feb 2023 - Present



Freelance

• Italy

• Writer

  • May 2014 - Present

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Policy Sonar

• Rome, Italy

• Head of Strategic Communications

  • Aug 2014 - Aug 2022

  Policy Sonar is a boutique consultancy specializing in public policy analysis, regulatory risk assessment and strategy. We enable our clients to navigate Italy’s complex political environment, drawing upon our informed and expert intelligence Policy Sonar is a boutique consultancy specializing in public policy analysis, regulatory risk assessment and strategy. We enable our clients to navigate Italy’s complex political environment, drawing upon our informed and expert intelligence



The Wall Street Journal

• United States
• Newspaper Publishing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Deputy Bureau Chief, Italy

  • Jan 2010 - Apr 2014

  My main task was to report and oversee reporting on government, macroeconomics, policy making in general and some corporate shenanigans in a G7 country at a time of immense Europe-wide strain. I also helped guide a team of reporters covering local companies. Funnily, I moved to Rome expecting to witness Silvio Berlusconi's exit from the political stage, but that ended up being completely overshadowed by the euro drama. At any rate, my aim was to provide fresh and new facts and insights into the Italian story, which if one cares to go beyond cliches is not all dismal. Show less



Dow Jones

• United States
• Online Media
• 700 & Above Employee

• News Editor, European Economies

  • Nov 2002 - Jan 2010

  I started out covering Fiat, Italian luxury goods and private-equity news but quickly shifted into a job co-piloting coverage of macroeconomic trends and central banking from bureaux around Europe. Although technically an editor I always did a lot of reporting. I was fortunate to have this gig as I covered Erdogan's political ascent in Turkey and the new EU member states in the east as well as having a perch allowing me to identify faultlines that shot up to prominence when the euro-zone debt crisis erupted. Show less



Economist Intelligence: EIU

• United Kingdom
• Information Services
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Analyst

  • Jan 2000 - Oct 2002

  I wrote the EIU's analytical reports on Italy. Apart from having Robert O'Daly as a truly superb editor, this was a fun job as it required thinking through Italian politics from a much longer-term time frame than is typically done at newspapers. Sadly I had to drop this collaboration at the request of Dow Jones, on the grounds that the EIU is part of a rival publishing company. I wrote the EIU's analytical reports on Italy. Apart from having Robert O'Daly as a truly superb editor, this was a fun job as it required thinking through Italian politics from a much longer-term time frame than is typically done at newspapers. Sadly I had to drop this collaboration at the request of Dow Jones, on the grounds that the EIU is part of a rival publishing company.



International Herald Tribune

• France
• Newspapers
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Managing editor, Italy Daily

  • Mar 1998 - Oct 2002

  I co-founded and then ran a four-page zoned insert for Italy of the International Herald Tribune. This was wildly fun though absurdly gruelling and involved training reporters - many of whom went on to professional success - and mustering a roster of outside commentators and somehow riding herd so that we met the printing deadline six days a week. I co-founded and then ran a four-page zoned insert for Italy of the International Herald Tribune. This was wildly fun though absurdly gruelling and involved training reporters - many of whom went on to professional success - and mustering a roster of outside commentators and somehow riding herd so that we met the printing deadline six days a week.