ANNA AMATI

“SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP” Award

She is among the ten most innovative business leaders in Italy, innovation enabler, she has acquired more than 20 years of experience on economic development policies and mechanism supporting innovation of companies and territories.

She is Vice-President of META Group, an international company which invests in start-ups and innovators,  an integrating platform  which helps to turn knowledge into development. Anna thinks that innovation is the way to fight against the crisis.

Architect, mum of three children, She is a member of the Board council of ITALIA Startup, with a mandate for Education and she is also Italian coordinator for the Kauffman Foundation,  whose founder thought that it is a basic human right to have the possibility to fulfil any great idea.

Since January 2016 she has been a member of the board of directors of the “Teatro Stabile dell’Umbria” and member of the Scientific Board of Italian Institute “Treccani”. Mentioned by Wired among the ten most innovative Italian women of 2015 and winner of the “techno-visionaries 2016” International Award. Since January 2018 she has been one of the five Italian executive officers, among other 84 Europeans, in the Horizon 2020 SME Instrument program.