Francesca Romana D’Antuono

Speaker at the St. Gallen Symposium

Francesca Romana D’Antuono (FRD) is an international pharmaceutical marketer turned changemaker. She has been the co-president of Volt Europa since 2021 and has been elected for two consecutive mandates. Under her leadership, Volt succeeded in gaining representation in 10 countries, from the municipal to the European level. This includes National parliaments (NL, CY, BG) and a delegation of 5 members of the European Parliament. A Global Bridges alumna, a selected participant in the Lucerne Dialogue basecamp and a speaker in prestigious endeavors like the Cambridge Union and the European Leadership Academy, FRD has been featured as an author and as a host in national and international news outlets especially focusing on democracy, migration, economics, AI and political strategy. In 2017 and 2018 she published two poetry books under the pseudonym Francesca Del Mar.