Giovanna Gregori is the Executive Director of AIDAF – the Italian Family Business Association.

She is also part of EFB (European Family Business) Management Committee and of FBN (Family Business Network) ‘Responsible Ownership’ working group.

In 2020 and 2021 she was consulting several Italian Family Businesses and started The Regenerative Society Foundation, founded by a group of European entrepreneurial families, pioneers of the idea of a new regenerative socio-economic model.

Previously she was Corporate Reputation and Sustainability Director at illycaffé and Director of Fondazione Ernesto Illy (2015-2020); Global Director of Communications and B2B for the McArthurGlen Group (2013-2015). Particularly relevant is her previous experience at Louis Vuitton Italia (LMVH Group), where she held the role of Corporate Project Manager (2010-2013), and at Salvatore Ferragamo as Global Director of International Public Relations, Press and Events (1995-2000).

Between 2000 and 2010 Giovanna lived and worked in Los Angeles as a Member of the Board for The Audrey Hepburn Children’s Fund, a non-profit organization where she was supervising Fundraising, Communications and Events.

She also worked as Director of Italian Public Relations, Press and Events for L’Oréal Paris & Laboratoires Garnier and for Prestige et Collections/Parfums et Beauté, the luxury division of L’Oréal Group (1990-95).

She has a degree in Literature and Philosophy from the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, with a specialization in Social Communications. She fluently speaks English and French, and has a passion for jazz and classical music, contemporary art, and food/fine dining culture.