Alessia Melasecche Germini

Alessia Melasecche Germini is a partner and Board Member of META, where she operates as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer. Currently, Ms. Melasecche Germini manages the DG Research & Innovation, framework contract ESIC, Exploitation Strategy and Innovation Consultants, providing exploitation related services to projects financed under the thematic priority of Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies (NMP). Having a strong and experienced background in the economic field, Ms. Melasecche Germini is in charge of running the Global Entrepreneurship Week in Italy, this event being the world’s largest celebration involving innovators and job creators who launch start-ups that bring ideas to life, drive economic growth and expand human welfare. This event reaches global scale and is comprised out of 153 countries from all over the world. Being also engaged as an Expert in the Business Innovation Observatory, with more than 10 years of experience in acting as Consultant, Expert and Manager in international innovation and R&D projects co-funded by the European Commission and other national and international donors, Ms. Melaseche Germini managed to become one of the leading experts in her domains. Throughout her career, Ms. Melasecche Germini has been the Board Member of TII, Europe’s premier independent association of technology transfer and innovation support for professionals, and was engaged by the European Commission as Independent Evaluator of the DG Connect ICT FP7_2013 call and by the Research Executive Agency of the H2020 SME Instrument PHASE I and PHASE II. Ms. Melasecche Germini is also a Member of Réseau du Pays du Groupe Visegrad, the Association that groups European Universities and Research Centers and deals with the transformations that have occurred to the European economic, social and cultural system. Ms Melasecche Germini graduated and specialized in Economy and Business, having an international PhD on Internationalization of SMEs and for several years she was an Adjunct Professor of Marketing and Public and Non-Profit Companies Organization, at the Faculty of Economy and Business, University of Studies Perugia, Italy.