Augusta Iannini

Born in L’Aquila on 20 January 1950.

She been an independent Director of Snam since 27 April 2022.

She graduated with honours in Law from “La Sapienza” University of Rome and has embarked on a brilliant career in law, as a Lawyer and Magistrate from 1977 to 2012, holding the positions, among others, of Investigating Magistrate in criminal matters and Magistrate for preliminary investigations.

Vice Head of Cabinet of the Ministry of Justice since June 2001, from 13 December 2001 to 3 January 2005 she was the Director-General of the Criminal Justice System (with the duty, among others, of assessing codes of conduct drawn up by associations representing organisations, in accordance with Legislative Decree No. 231 of 8 June 2001) and also coordinated activities at the Council of Europe, the European Union, the UN and the OECD.

From 4 January 2005 to 7 June 2008, she was Head of the Justice Affairs Department (dealing, among other things, with the administrative management of judicial activities in civil and criminal matters; preliminary activities required for the Ministry to exercise its powers in proceedings; international cooperation in civil and criminal matters).

Head of the Legislative Office of the Ministry of Justice from 8 June 2008 to June 2012.

She held the position of Vice-Chairman of the Italian Data Protection Authority guaranteeing the protection of personal data from 19 June 2012 to 25 June 2020.

She is currently a Member of the Board of Directors of Policlinico San Donato and Chairman of the Risk Management Committee of the San Donato-Velca Group; a former member of the Board of Directors of Orofin S.p.A. and Chairman of the Supervisory Bodies of Esselunga spa and its subsidiaries Atlantic and Esserbella; Vice Chairman of the Monitoring Body of the code of conduct for the processing of personal data regarding commercial information.

She is the author of several legal publications.

She has received various awards over the years, including the Bellisario Award for justice in 2009 and was named Knight of the National Order of the Legion of Honour; in 2012 she received the “ Anna Maria Mammoliti” Minerva Award in honour of her Career; in 2015 she received the “Stella del Sud 2015” ASSUD Award as a leading woman in the professional world and in 2017 she received the 100 Eccellenze Italiane (100 Italian Excellences) Award.