Giuliana Mancini, welcome to the Wikimedia movement. :-)
Sydney Poore User:FloNight Member of FDC Sydney Poore User:FloNight Wikipedian in Residence at Cochrane Collaboration On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 3:31 AM, Andrea Zanni <andrea.za...@wikimedia.it> wrote: > Hello everybody, > > It's with great pleasure that I announce Giuliana Mancini as the new > Executive Director of Wikimedia Italia. > > It took us over 6 months to select her within a pool of 450 candidates: it > has been an incredibly hard work, and tough decisions were made. > I'd like to acknowledge that one of the most active members of the > selective committee was Alessio Guidetti aka Cotton, who recendly passed: > it saddens us to know that he won't have the chance to see her working with > us. > > But this is a moment of joy, because the Wikimedia family just got a new > member. > Giuliana will help us become a more mature and structured association: her > deep experience and competence will be used to for make Wikimedia Italia > scale and increase its impact in the world of free and open knowledge. > > Before being appointed Executive Director at Wikimedia Italia, in the last > 12 years, she has covered several roles of increasing commitment in the > field of arts and culture. She spent 9 years in a grant making foundation > where she supervised the activities of a cello academy and the concerts of > an ensemble of classical musicians, assisting the board in setting > strategies and coordinating the comprehensive management. > She participated in the board of a company in the field of Fine Arts with a > mandate for promotion of a multimedia exhibition, creating strategic > relationship with Italian and foreigner museums. > She drafted several feasibility studies and business plans for theatres and > other cultural institutions as well as for start up companies. > She can speak English fluently and has a good understanding of Spanish and > French, and she graduated in Economics and in Law (her second degree was > completed while working). > > She was officially introduced to the Wikimedia Italia assembly this > Saturday, and this is her second week of work. > > Please welcome her in our incredible Wikimedia movement. > > Best regards, > > Andrea Zanni > > -- > Presidente > Wikimedia Italia > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
