Giulia Bertezzolo is the Head of the Cyprus settlement support Unit in the European Commission. She joined the European Commission in 2011 and worked on food safety, financial services and reforms. From 2020 to 2024 she was policy assistant to the Director-General of the Directorate General for reform support. Previously, she was senior attorney and worked at the academia. In 2018 she was appointed Secretary General of the Italian Financial Market Authority (Consob). She holds a PhD in administrative law from the Trento University School of Law and a post-doc from the New York University School of Law. She has published several articles on law journals and taught at the University of Trento and LUISS Guido Carli in Italy.