Francesca Leon

Deputy Mayor for Culture of the City of Torino. Graduated in Literature and Philosophy from the University of Rome, she is an expert on cultural management and planning and from 2004 to 2016 she was the Director of the Associazione Torino Città Capitale Europea pursuing cultural heritage promotion and developing several projects among which the museum card system “Abbonamento Musei Torino Piemonte”. She worked for the Italian national public broadcasting company RAI, for the Emilia Romagna Cultural Agency (AICER), Civita, Elemond and Arethusa. She has carried out a number of surveys, researches and consultancy activities on the management and promotion of cultural heritage and she has published several articles on newspapers and journals of the sector.