Riccardo Honorati Bianchi
International Affairs Senior Advisor; Cdp

Born in Rome, he graduated in Law and became Lawyer on 1997. He attended Post-graduate course in Community Law at the Board of the Bar Association of Rome. He has been Head of EU Project and Technical Assistance Programmes at Europrogetti & Finanza S.p.A. (leading company dealing with EU and National Programmes to support central and local authorities and economic development in Italy) from 1996 to 2003. He served in the Directorate-General EU Structural Funds at the Ministry of Economy and Finance (Department for Cohesion Policy) from 2003 to 2006 and was appointed as  Resident Counsellor within the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Bulgaria from 2006 to 2009 dealing with European Structural Funds in Bulgaria after the EU accession. Since 2009 he works at Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (CDP) - the National Promotional Institution, appointed also as the Italian Financial Institution for Development Cooperation - in the Public Affairs Department, dealing with International and European Affairs. From July 2013 to July 2017, he was the Head of CDP Office in Brussels and he served as Permanent Representative of CDP to the European Union. Currently he is dealing with International Affairs, coordinating operative initiatives within the Italy China Business Forum.