Virginia is responsible for support to applicants and project partners as well as for the assessment of applications and finance monitoring.

Before joining the secretariat in 2016, she worked as an external consultant at the Managing Authority of the Autonomous Province of Trento in Italy, assisting in the audit process of ERDF operations. Previously she also worked as an intern at the European Court of Auditors in Luxembourg, supporting the audit of European Structural Funds programmes.

Virginia has a background in political science and international relations and holds a Master of European Affairs from the University Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne.

She speaks Italian, French, English and some Spanish.