Speaker profile: Francesco Briganti

Francesco Briganti is the Secretary General of the Cross Border Benefits Alliance – Europe (CBBA-Europe), an EU advocacy association that promotes the creation of cross border and pan-European social benefits solutions (including occupational/workplace and personal pensions). Francesco is also the CEO of the Employee Benefits and Welfare Institute (EBWI), a Belgian public affairs company, and a member of the Stakeholders Group on Occupational Pensions of the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority. Additionally, Francesco set up and currently chairs both the Italian and the Belgian/EU branch of the International Employee Benefits Association (IEBA). Between June 2016 and 2018, Francesco was the Coordinator of the World Pension Alliance (WPA), a platform of the main worldwide private pensions advocacy organizations. Prior to this, Francesco was the Director of the European Association of Paritarian Institutions of Social Protection (AEIP) - an EU advocacy organization representing 1,200 employee benefits providers. Francesco has a law degree from the University of Bologna (Italy); a Master’s degree in International Political Economy at the University of Kent (UK); and a Ph.D in EU social and labor law at the University Foundation Marco Biagi in Modena (Italy) and the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium) as co-tutor.