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After taking a degree in political science at the University of Pisa, Gina Nieri specialised in Journalism and Mass Media at LUISS (Libera Università di Studi Sociali) in Rome.

She has worked in commercial television since 1977, starting as General Secretary of FIEL, Italy's first association of private broadcasters.

She then moved to become Director of FRT, the federation of radio and television, before joining the Fininvest Group in 1990 as Head of Relations with Industrial Associations.

She is currently Mediaset's Director of Institutional and Legal Affairs and Strategic Analysis.

In April 2006, she was confirmed as a member of the Board of Directors of Mediaset S.p.A., to which she was first appointed in 1998. She is also a member of the Executive Committee.

In June 2007 she was appointed Deputy Chairman of RTI where she has sat on the Board of Directors since 1999.

She is also a member of the Supervisory Board of Confindustria, the Italian confederation of industry, and of ASSOLOMBARDA, the Lombardy confederation of industry.

She is the Deputy Chairman of CAMPUS Multimedia in.formazione, the consortium - created by Mediaset and the IULM university in Milan - which manages a master's programme in journalism and multimedia management.

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