Mariangela PIRA
Journalist, Class CNBC
She has a degree in Foreign Languages at the Catholic University of Milan. After that, she went to the United States to work for Ansa.
There she followed the first Inauguration Week of George Bush and the trial for Al Qaeda's bombings to the Us Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
She's an anchor for Class Cnbc, the first financial channel in Italy, at Sky 505. She also contributes to the financial report of the Italian Tg5.
She has been writing about China since 2004. In 2004-05 she lived in Beijing and Shanghai after gaining a scholarship. From China she corresponded for MilanoFinanza, Panorama and Il Venerdi' di Repubblica.
For Hoepli (Italian publisher) she wrote La Nuova Rivoluzione Cinese.
At Class Cnbc she anchors Esteri News Dossier, a Foreign Politics program in collaboration with the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.