Laura Lecci is the Chief Executive Officer at EBN, since July 2020. EBN is the European Business and Innovation Centre Network, the European community of business innovation leaders, that thrives the support to innovative, impact-driven and sustainable companies. Laura has been working in EBN since May 2012, starting by managing international collaborative projects involving members in a number of different activities across several sectors of the industry, aiming at supporting innovative entrepreneurs and companies. M.A. graduate from the University of Trieste (Italy) in International and Diplomatic Relations, in 2011 she obtained a diploma in Cooperation and International Development at ISPI (Institute for International Politics Studies). Before joining in EBN Laura worked at the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation department and then in the Brussels liaison office of ENEA, the Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development.