Born in Ancona on 6 October 1958. She graduated summa cum laude in Law from the University of Bologna in 1982. She joined the Bank of Italy in 1984 and was assigned to the Trento Branch, where she carried out supervisory work, including inspections, related to banks. She was then transferred to the Caserta Branch where she was responsible for the Secretariat-Foreign Exchange-Supervision Office.

In 1988 she entered the Bank’s Internal Audit Department, where she conducted and coordinated audits on departments, branches and processes. She also participated in international technical assistance initiatives and in various bodies in the context of the European System of Central Banks (ESCB), first as a member of the task force supporting the Internal Auditors Committee then as a member of the Committee itself.

From 2008 to 2012 she also represented the Bank on the task force set up the Organizational Analysis Working Group to introduce an operational risk management system for the ESCB. In 2009 she was one of the coordinators of the project to start up the operational risk management system at the Bank of Italy and, at the start of 2012, she was assigned to the Organization Department to start up the newly-constituted Operational Risk Management Division. In the same year she also chaired the relative ESCB task force.

At the end of 2012, she was appointed Deputy Head of the Personnel Department and a member of the Human Resources Conference of the ESCB, where she coordinated a working group on the mechanisms of performance management.

In July 2014 she became Deputy Head of the Internal Audit Directorate and was once again appointed as a member of the Internal Auditors Committee, where she now chairs the Audit Task Force on Management Support. She also participated in the Central Banks Internal Auditors Group.

On 1 August she became Head of the Internal Audit Directorate.