Sonia Schellino

Deputy Mayor in charge of Social Policies of the City of Torino. Graduated in Economics and Political Sciences, she worked from 1996 to 2016 in the third sector at the Fondazione Agnelli and at the Compagnia di San Paolo. She had previously served as adviser for companies and in the educational field and she had also conducted documentary and empirical researches on foundations and on the third sector, as well as activities of selection, assessment, and monitoring of projects related to research, education, and social issues. She developed projects aimed at encouraging donations and social responsibility, in particular with reference to planning of community foundations and building of instruments able to direct private capitals towards causes of common public interest.