An Italian at the Elysée: who is Claudia Ferrazzi, Macron's choice for culture

The news of Claudia Ferrazzi ’s appointment as advisor to the new French prime minister, Emmanuel Macron, came last Thursday, when the Lazio Regional Administrative Court upheld the appeal filed against five museum directors appointed by Minister Dario Franceschini: Claudia Ferrazzi herself was part of the judging commission on that occasion, and she will now work at the Elysée Palace and will have as her reference the new French culture minister, Françoise Nyssen. But membership on that commission constitutes but one of the items on the long resume of the cultural manager, who will therefore leave Milan (she had been on the staff of Mayor Beppe Sala for a few months: she was in charge of territorial marketing) for Paris.

Claudia Ferrazzi, born in Bergamo in 1977 (she is therefore the same age as Macron), with dual Italian and French citizenship, has a bachelor’s degree in public relations from Iulm, a master’s degree from the Institute of European Studies at the University of Brussels, where she studied European politics and external relations, and an additional master’s degree in public administration from France’s Ecole Nationale d’Administration. She began her journey at a very young age, starting at the Brussels office of Telecom Italia and then held consulting positions for several large companies (Cap Gemini, Boston Consulting Group) and then worked in France, where she held various positions in the state apparatus (she was a member of the finance inspectorate and the human resources delegation of the French Ministry of Economy). In 2011, she moved to the Louvre, where she served for two years as deputy general administrator, assisting the president-director in drafting cultural programming (she was in charge of operational management, finance monitoring, human resources management, and communications). Also at the Louvre, she directed the project to open the Lens “branch” of the great French museum, the most visited in the world. She also represented the museum abroad.

Before moving to Milan, Claudia Ferrazzi, from the Louvre, moved to Rome where, since September 2013, she served as secretary general of the Academy of France at the Villa Medici, reforming the art residencies and managing the institution’s financial and human resources. She was then, since 2014, a member of the Superior Council of Cultural and Landscape Heritage and, since 2015, a member of the Board of Directors of the Offices. And again, in 2014 she was appointed vice president of the Governing Council of the Italian National Commission for UNESCO.

An Italian at the Elysée: who is Claudia Ferrazzi, Macron's choice for culture

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