Paolo Di Stefano

Paolo Di Stefano is an executive professional with an extensive European and International background in sustainable agriculture and food policies. Since October 2024, he is Executive Director at Eat Europe, a young and innovative pan-European multistakeholder organisation that aims at stimulating thinking and tabling concrete solutions and proposals to EU decision-makers, in order to drive a sustainable and resilient food systems’ transformation, through an innovative and solid alliance between all actors: farmers, industry, retailers, academia and consumers. Prior to that, for 7 years Paolo led the Brussels Office of Coldiretti, the largest farmers association in Italy and one of the most influential actors in the agri-food sector, at European and International level, liaising with EU based companies, associations, and non-governmental organisations as well as with agri-food players in the framework of the World Farmers Organisation (WFO), in which he held the role of Chair of the Value Chain Working group for 5 years. He has been working on EU Public Affairs in Brussels since 2002, with an important experience in the European Commission as Legal Officer dealing with Competition file.