MANUELA GAROFALO

PhD Student

PhD program:: XXXIX
email: m.garofalo@uniroma1.it
building: Via Salaria, 113





Journalist and communications consultant.

Ph.D. student of the XXXIX cycle at the Department of Communication and Social Research (CoRiS) of Sapienza, University of Rome.

From 2019 to 2021 she held the role of press and communication officer at the Ministry of Economic Development, and then until 2022 at the Ministry of Agricultural, Food and Forestry Policies, where she also coordinated the communication of the G20 under the Italian presidency, on the topic of Environment, Agriculture, and Sustainability.

Previously she has been the head of the press and communications office at the Molise Regional Council.

Until 2023 she worked on digital and institutional communication at the University of Molise, where she also teaches Public and Political Communication and Digital Media and Strategies of Political and Institutional Communication, at the master's degree course in Political Sciences and European Institutions.

Her career in the communications field began in Dublin in 2008, at the Barclays GRCB.
Subsequently, she dealt with press office management, internal communication, communication strategies, and relations with institutions at Edimo Holding Srl, Prime Group Srl, and Flavor of Italy Group.

In the journalistic field, she has dealt in particular with politics end fashion communication.
She has a master's degree in Advertising, Digital Communication and Business Creativity from the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia.

Since 2021 she has been a member of the national board of PA Social - Italian Association for Communication and Digital Information.

Her scientific and disciplinary interest areas include public, institutional, and political communication, digital media, internal communication processes.

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