Lara Natale
Chief Impact Officer
Lara drives Impact across CFG. She builds capacity and strategises, connecting the dots within CFG’s considerable knowledge base to ensure CFG’s thought leadership influences current decision-making.
Lara stewards CFG’s theory of change and impact frameworks as part of the CFG Executive, working closely with all technology programmes and leading the CFG Incubator. Lara brings a broad range of professional perspectives to CFG. Over twenty-odd years, she has held roles in public affairs, policy and diplomacy in decision-making hubs Brussels and London, following some early-career years teaching in far-flung locations including Japan and India.
Lara’s mandate at CFG draws together the professional challenges she has embraced. Among these: negotiating EU digital and culture legislation and post-Brexit alignment as attachée for the UK government; coordinating the Brussels secretariat of grassroots networks in civil society; leading talented teams providing strategic EU public policy and regulatory counsel to global businesses with large budgets for a leading global advisory firm; in-house industry senior advisory in telecommunications and directing a regulatory think tank practice.
Lara’s language fluency developed – from native Italian, to native English and French in daily life. Her policy focus has evolved from migrant integration and human rights, to education and culture, and now a decade and counting in tech, media and telecoms.
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