Claudia Di Perna
Passionate about foreign languages and foreign relations, after her high school education she graduated in Translation and Negotiation Interpreting in English and Spanish in 2004 at Scuola Superiore di Lingue Moderne per Interpreti e Traduttori in Forlì, University of Bologna. In her university education she takes every opportunity to enrich her education with exams in Russian language, Japanese, European law, economics and marketing.
Believing in the importance of lifelong learning, she has continued to attend professional training courses: most recently the course in Institutional Relations and Public Affairs organized by Luiss Business school; in 2023 the course in Europlanning for Culture organized by Feltrinelli Education. He has taken courses on transparency and anti-corruption in private organizations under public law, with a special focus on cultural organizations. In 2010, already a tourist interpreter for 5 years, she passed the exam and joined the regional register of tourist guides of Basilicata and is mainly involved in the conception and implementation of cultural tourism itineraries for the entire region. In 2007, thanks to the Leonardo project, she lived and worked 4 months in Derry, Northern Ireland, taking English language courses. Her professional training, however, had already begun immediately after graduation when, in 2005, she returned to Matera and attended an inspiring training course in Organization and Management of Art Exhibitions held by Circolo Culturale la Scaletta in Matera.
In 2006 she helped set up a team of young Lucanian professionals with whom, working alongside the Zetema Foundation of Matera, she set up and inaugurated MUSMA, Museum of Contemporary Sculpture of Matera, which they then managed until 2012 together with the Crypt of Original Sin.
Her ultra-decade-long journey within the “Matera Basilicata 2019” project began in May 2012, when she was selected as the Secretariat of the Matera 2019 Committee, the body promoting Matera's candidacy as European Capital of Culture for 2019, and began to devote herself to an exciting job accompanying the city of Matera and the entire Region to obtaining the ambitious title.
In April 2015 she was hired in the Matera Basilicata 2019 Foundation as Head of the Secretariat and Executive Assistant, supporting the Executive Board in maintaining external relations and taking care of Board meetings.
Since 2022 she has also held the role of the Foundation's Head of Prevention of Corruption and Transparency.
