Business Development Manager and FT Talent Director for the Financial Times, she is the first Italian to have won the Europe Grand Prize Winner award.

Born in 1993, with a degree from Bocconi and a master’s degree in Media & Communications from the London School of Economics, Virginia Stagni is the youngest manager in the over 130-year history of the Financial Times and her role is central to the growth strategy of the Anglo-Saxon newspaper.

A key figure in maintaining the Financial Times as one of the most innovative media groups on the market, his aim is to seek out new business ideas and growth opportunities that reflect the sustainability of the FT business model, with a particular focus on future readers, especially women and under-30s, and the acquisition of young talent for the company.

Founder and director of FT Talent Challenge, an innovative hub that attracts hundreds of young students and professionals from all over the world and from the most diverse backgrounds, she is also an advisor for the consultancy firm FT Strategies, which she co-created with the data department. And there is more: she is CEO and founder of the wellness startup Good Saints and sits on the board of directors of INMA Europe.

In 2021, she entered the Forbes Italia Under 30 list and in 2020 she received the “International Media and News Association (Inma) 30 under 30” award for the Business Intelligence category: she is one of the thirty best innovators under thirty in the field of digital information.

Furthermore, among the awards that have been attributed to her, the Italia Giovane 2020 award as Italian excellence in the world.

Dreamers who do: intrapreneurship and the future of the news (Bocconi University Press, 2021), is his first book.