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Micol Rigo

Vice-Director for ESG Sustainability - RAI

Currently deputy director in Rai's newly set up Rai for Sustainability - ESG Department and member of BoD of RaiCom.
Qualified lawyer since 1999, specializing in EU, antitrust and corporate law (LLM College of Europe, Bruges). Following several years at prominent International law firms (Cleary Gottlieb and Clifford Chance), she has have been in charge of EU and antitrust Affairs in Fastweb, an Italian broadband telecoms company and of legal departments in American Express (from 2011 to 2016) and Philips Italy, Greece and Israel (from mid 2016 to feb 2017), dealing with legal and regulatory matters in highly regulated fields of Italian and EU law (payments, consumer protection, compliance and corporate matters).
Prior to er latest career move into sustainability, she has been in charge - within Rai's legal and corporate affairs department - of providing legal assistance in the field of EU and international law, Collective Societies and Criminal litigation.
In her new role in Rai for Sustainability - ESG department, she is in charge of the corporate Sustainability Plan as well as of legal/regulatory monitoring on ESG issues and of national / international initiatives concerning sustainability, including the participation to EBU's committees and working groups, in close coordination with all competent departments.
She regularly lectures on Sustainability legislation and strategies at major Universities (LUISS, Università di Ferrara), is a member of the EBU - European Broadcasting Union's Sustainability Working Group and currently Vice Chair of EBU's Public Funding and Governance Working Group, gathering all major Public Broadcasters' legal and policy experts. She is also a member of the scientific board of ANICA Academy (prominent association of film producers) dealing with ESG issues and strategies.