Alessandra Luchetti is the Head of Department – Creativity, Citizenships and Joint Operations in the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). She is an agriculture engineering graduated at the University of Perugia, IT. Between 1988 and 1992, she was research fellow at the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche and at the Istituto per la Ricerca in Olivicoltura. In 1994, she joined the European Commission as project officer at the agro-industrial research unit of Directorate-General for Research. She was mainly responsible for research fields related to food raw material improvements and food consumer acceptance and needs. In 2001, she moved to the Directorate responsible for the implementation of the Human Resources and Mobility programme, as the Head of Sector for the Reintegration Grants and later on the Deputy Head of the Unit “Marie Curie Actions-Fellowships”. In December 2011 she was appointed Head of the unit “Research careers; Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions” in the Directorate-General for Education and Culture. In April 2015, she joined the Research Executive Agency of the European Commission as the Head of Department for “Excellent Science”.