Special Assignments

Enrico Ponzone
European Affairs

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Enrico Ponzone started his career as a European equity analyst at Dresdner Kleinwort Benson before joining Deutsche Bank to head their Southern Europe equity sales team.

After an interim as internet entrepreneur he was responsible for marketing and business development of the Sustainable Investment Products of F&C Management, a leading UK ethical fund manager.

Over the past years he was a London based partner of LatinCo – Latin American Investment Partners, a specialist advisor to European Institutions on investments in Brazil.

Mr Ponzone is an economics graduate from Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium, and is fluent in English, Italian, French, Spanish and Portuguese.

Franco Perroni
Institutional Relations - European Parliament

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For 27 years, Franco Perroni held various positions in the European Parliament in Brussels, Strasbourg and Luxembourg.

Responsible for political and constitutional studies, he was also in charge of operations for the Euromed Parliamentary Assembly. He organised several inter-parliamentary conferences with Latin American countries and headed missions to Europe, Latin America, Middle East and North Africa.

In parallel with his career as a EU official, Mr Perroni was a journalist for both radio and television (RTL, Luxembourg) for 12 years. He organised high level cultural events related to Latin America in the Benelux countries and is a co-founder of the “Instituto de Estudios sobre Conflictos y Acción Humanitaria” (IECAH) in Madrid.

Amateur pianist, he is a composer inspired by Brazilian popular music and a member of SACEM, in Paris.

He has a degree in Political Science at “La Sapienza” University in Rome, is fluent in Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, French and English and has a basic knowledge of Dutch.


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