Elisa Giraldi received her degree in Electronic Engineering from the Turin Technical University in 2001. In 2002 she spent a quarter at the California State University Los Angeles (USA) where she took special courses in the communications engineering area. After two years as a consultant at RSI Sistemi (Altran Group), she joined the firm in 2004.

Her main areas of expertise are satellite navigation systems (e.g. GPS and Galileo), communications, information and media technology, software-related inventions, electronic devices and integrated electronics devices. She also authored several publications in the field of satellite navigation on technical journals. Ms. Elisa Giraldi is fluent in Italian and English.