Giulia Di Tommaso Legal, Public Affairs
and Sustainability Adviser

About

Giulia Di Tommaso has over twenty years of global experience in Legal and Public Affairs on a wide range of business issues, based mainly in Brussels, London, Africa and Italy.

She has been for over a decade with Unilever in a variety of roles leading legal and corporate affairs/communications teams on Anti-trust & Competition Law, IPR, Trade, Regulatory & Marketing/Digital policy, Sustainability/CSR, Compliance and Human Rights, as well as driving global strategy and business participations at the World Economic Forum, Investment Climate facility for Africa, EU-Africa Summit, the Southern Corridor of Tanzania as well as the Transatlantic Business Dialogue including the EU-US committee on Intellectual Property Right.

She has led the negotiations culminating in the international agreement on sustainable sourcing from smallholders farmers between Unilever and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD).

Both in her capacity and leadership roles, Giulia has had extensive experience in engaging with governments, media and companies across all sectors.

Prior to the corporate experience, Giulia was senior associate and managed the Brussels office of Chiomenti Studio Legale and worked at the European Commission as well as at the European Parliament in Brussels.

Giulia is a qualified attorney at law and was called to the bar in 1992. She holds a Master of Laws in European Law from the Katholieke Universiteit of Leuven and is fellow of Salzburg Seminar and Berkeley University- Faculty of Law/Boalt Hall. Regular speaker at international conferences, she is currently cooperating with the Centre of Human Rights/EIUC in Venice on Business and Human Rights academic program.