Claudia Segre

Claudia Segre built a 33-year career as a trader and financial executive at major Italian banking groups, including Intesa, UniCredit and Credem. Specialising in international markets, she has long explored the links between geopolitics, human rights, economics and finance.

In 2016, she founded Global Thinking Foundation in Italy, France and Belgium to advance financial education, gender equality and the prevention of economic violence. She works with the UN, IMF and OECD and is a recognised voice in sustainable finance, FinTech and FemTech.

She is a member of the Advisory Body of the Lombardy Region's Ombudsman for the Protection of Crime Victims and of the Technical and Scientific Committee of the Observatory on Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence at the Department for Equal Opportunities of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers. She also advises the Bicameral Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry into Femicide and All Forms of Gender-Based Violence.

She is Co-Chair of Women7/G7 Italy, a role she has held since 2024, and a Women7 Italy Delegate for the French G7. She is also Vice President of Fondazione Pubblicità Progresso and was appointed to the Council of Europe's GREVIO in 2026. Forbes named her among Italy's 100 most successful women in 2019.