An Italian national with over a decade of experience in Brussels, Carla Coppola is an expert in communications, public relations, branding, events marketing, stakeholder engagement and digital strategy. For the past ten years, she worked for a public-private membership organisation advancing intelligent transport systems in Europe, focusing on smart, urban and clean mobility. There she covered different roles and responsibilities, including the development and dissemination activities for dozens of European projects, lead corporate communications and marketing activities for the ITS Congresses, the largest event within the industry, also managing a team of communications professionals.

Before that she gained experience of the European policy landscape in Brussels by serving the European Federation of European Screen Directors and completing internships at the European Commission (DG CONNECT) and for the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs at the Italian Consulate of Podgorica in Montenegro.

She joined the IEEP team in August 2021 as Head of Communications.