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Laura Rovizzi

Laura
Rovizzi

CEO

Economist specializing in business development and regulation. She has spent several years as a senior researcher at the London Business School and Columbia University in New York. She has had a long managerial career at Olivetti, Omnitel/Vodafone, Enel, Eolo, and finally Wind Telecommunications, where she served as head of Internet and multimedia direction, director of the Libero portal, and ultimately director of Strategic Planning. In 2008, she founded and became CEO of Open Gate Italia, a consulting company specializing in institutional and regulatory matters in the TV and Telecommunications sectors. She is the founder and shareholder of www.firstonline.info, a web journal focusing on economics, finance, and markets. She serves as an independent member on the boards of directors of publicly traded companies. Since 2020, she has been a Contract Professor and Co-Director at LUMSA – Master in “Institutional Relations and Market Regulation.”

Publications:

  • “Italian Telecommunications: Between Regulatory Delays and Strategic Uncertainties,” in “Competition in Public Utility Systems” (Il Mulino, Bologna 1998) – Arel Editorial Series – With Enzo Pontarollo
  • “From Welfare Mechanisms to Market Logics: The Case of IAC” – with Enzo Pontarollo, (Il Mulino, Bologna 1990)
  • “AMERICAN LESSONS FOR UNIVERSAL SERVICE AND NET NEUTRALITY?” Arel Seminars 2015 “Net Neutrality: What Scenarios After the FCC Decision?” Arel Seminars 2018