Giovanna Zucconi leaves the Board of Directors of Fondazione Pesenti.
The Board of Directors meeting on April 27 unanimously approved the co-option of Dr. Daniela Hamaui.
Biography
She is known for having created and directed from 1996 D la Repubblica delle donne, a women’s news magazine previously unknown in the Italian market. The weekly soon became one of the flags of female emancipation in Italy, and through its pages, thanks to her civic commitment, Dr. Hamaui led a modern campaign to enhance the role of women in our society.
Born in Cairo, of Italian nationality, she graduated in Modern Literature from the University of Milan.
She attended the first two-year course at IFG (Institute for Journalism Training), managed by the Order and Region of Lombardy, and became a professional journalist in 1979.
She collaborated with Makno and Consuledis and with Repubblica.
In March 1980, she was hired by Rizzoli.
She collaborated with the cultural supplement of Corriere della Sera and then with the Sunday supplement of Il Sole 24 Ore.
In 1988, she was called to Mondadori at the monthly Cento Cose, where in 1995 she became director.
In 1996, the Repubblica group asked her to conceive and direct D, the female weekly supplement to the newspaper. She stayed there until February 2002, creating D casa and the Album di Repubblica.
In 2002, Carlo Caracciolo and Carlo De Benedetti appointed her, the first woman in Italy, director of L’Espresso, the most important Italian newsmagazine.
In July 2010, she left L’Espresso and became editorial director of Repubblica’s periodicals. She created and directed R7 and participated in the creation of Rsera, the first newspaper exclusively for tablets.
In 2011, in addition to editorial direction of periodicals, she directed Velvet, and in 2012 also D di Repubblica, which she transformed in March 2013. She left the group at the end of 2015.
From May 2017 to the end of 2019, she was director of Vanity Fair.
Since March 2019, she has been teaching a course on Publishing and Fashion at Naba.
Since January 2020, she has been editorial consultant for Archivio Magazine.
She is active on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Instagram.
In 1999, she won the Minerva d’oro award and in 2004 the Bellisario prize.