B20 Secretariat

Born in 1975, Stefania Rossi works in the Employment, Welfare and Human Capital Department of Confindustria, the Confederation of Italian Industries. She is the manager in charge of EU and international social affairs, with more than twenty years of experience in a broad range of policy areas, notably social dialogue, industrial relations, labour market, skills, international labour standards and social sustainability. She represented the employers’ views in several social partner consultations at national, EU and international level and served as employer spokesperson in a number of social dialogue negotiations. She designed and implemented many projects in the field of social policy in collaboration with social partners’ organizations, public institutions and universities. She is Vice Chairperson of the Management Board of EUROFOUND, the European Foundation for the improvement of living and working conditions. She is member of the European Social Dialogue Committee, of the Social Affairs Committee of BusinessEurope and of the Employment, Labour and Social Affairs Committee of the Business and Industry Advisory Committee to the OECD. She is the Italian Employer Delegate at the International Labour Conference in Geneva and member of the Tripartite Committee for ILO activities at the Italian Labour Ministry. She holds a degree in Political Sciences from the Luiss Guido Carli University of Rome and specializations in industrial relations and human capital management.