Roberta Cianetti

Global Director, Social Operations & Partnerships Strategy, Condé Nast

Roberta Cianetti is currently the Director, Social Operations & Global Partnerships Strategy at Condé Nast.

For the past decade, she was a senior executive, leading the Italian market as Social Media Director at Condé Nast before taking on a global role at the company.

Prior to this, Roberta fueled the Social Media of women magazine Donna Moderna at Mondadori Publishing Group and the Community of Italy’s first leading Portal, Virgilio.it of Telecom Italia Group.

She spent the first part of her career serving in different capacities at PR Agencies, mostly in charge of Digital Communications for Web, Technology, Finance & Healthcare clients. She took her first steps in the subtitling industry, translating Films, TV series and Shows for MGM Technicolor, Warner Bros, HBO, Sony and Universal.

A graduate cum laude of the University of Perugia (Italy), and of Turun Yliopisto (Finland), she majored in Media Relations at 24ORE Business School in Milan and in Translation Studies at the University of Warwick (UK), and received an Executive MBA with the highest distinction from Luiss Business School in Rome.

Roberta is an advocate for Women’s Advancement and equal opportunities. She has been part of the teaching faculty of Condé Nast Social Academy as well as of several editions of Huawei’s European Leadership Academy, The School for Female Leadership in the Digital Age. She is a Keynote Speaker and Panelist for various international digital marketing conferences. 

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