Francesca Maltauro
Deputy Head of Unit, Unit ‘Digital Education’, Directorate-General for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture, European Commission
Francesca Maltauro is Deputy Head of Unit Digital Education at the Directorate General for Education and Culture of the European Commission. Through its strategic and comprehensive approach to digital education and training, the Unit contributes to delivering on the European Commission’s ambition of “A Europe fit for a digital age”. Francesca joined the Commission in 2016, leading the Erasmus+ team in the Higher Education Unit.
Before joining the European Commission, she worked for the European University Association, as a policy officer in the fields of institutional development and doctoral education. Before that, she had worked for 7 years at the International Relations Office of the University of Bologna, and at the Brussels School of International Studies of the University of Kent.
Francesca Maltauro holds a Master’s degree in Interpreting and Translation from the University of Bologna.