Professor Chiara Zilioli has dedicated her entire working life to Europe. In 1989 she joined the Legal Service of the Council of Ministers in Brussels; in 1995 she moved to the European Monetary Institute, to prepare the Monetary Union, and in 1998 she joined the European Central Bank (ECB) as Head of Division in the Legal Services, where she has been Director General of the Legal Services since 2013, leading a team of about 130 lawyers.
Chiara Zilioli holds an LL.M. from Harvard University and a Ph.D. from the European University Institute. In 2016 she was appointed honorary professor of law at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität in Frankfurt. She lectures at the Institute for Law and Finance of that University and at the College européen de Parme of Parma University, Italy. She has published numerous articles and 4 books.
Chiara Zilioli has been married to Dr. Andreas Fabritius for 32 years, and they have 4 children.