Beatrice Ballini

Beatrice received her Laurea degree in chemical engineering from the Polytechnic of Milan and her MS in ocean engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She then received her MMS in manag​​ement from the MIT Sloan School of Management, where she was awarded the Brooks Prize. Beatrice is fluent in Italian, French and English. She is also a member of the Italian Association of Engineers and was a teacher at Sciences Po, Master in Marketing, in Paris. In 2017, Beatrice joined the MIT Sloan European, Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Executive Board and is a recent member of the MIT Sloan Leadership Center's Advisory Board. She also sits on the Board of Coty Inc. as an Independent Director, and she is the Chair of the Renumeration, Nominating and Governance Committee. Since July 2021, Beatrice sits on the Board of the VAM Investments SPAC, which has been publicly quoted on the Amsterdam Stock Exchange on July 19th, 2021.