Carlo Pettinelli is an official of the European Commission.
He holds a University degree (Laurea) in Economy and Business Administration and is qualified as Chartered Accountant (Dottore Commercialista), Certified Professional Auditor (Revisore contabile) and Certified Forensic Auditor.
After some years of professional experience in the private sector, in Italy and abroad, he joined the European Court of Auditors in 1994.
In 1998 he moved to the European Commission where, dealing with different tasks, he worked in the Directorates-General for Competition, Audit, Education & Culture and Employment & Social Affairs, where he has been appointed Director.
Carlo Pettinelli joined Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG GROW) in February 2011, taking over the responsibility for several industrial sectors policies.
Since 2015 he is in charge of the ""Chemicals and consumer industry"" Directorate, which is responsible mainly for the chemicals-related activities. This covers both the EU chemicals regulations (REACH, CLP, Fertilizers and several others) and policy initiatives as chemicals in the Circular economy and the European Strategy for Plastics. Furthermore, the Directorate is responsible for trade negotiations of processed agricultural products (PAPs) and some other EU legislations as Metrology, Toys Safety and Cosmetics. From 2015 to 2020 he has been member of the Management Board of the European Medicines Agency (EMA, London and then Amsterdam).
Currently he represent the European Commission as member of the Management Board the Innovative Medicines Initiatives 2 (IMI2) and Bio Based Industry (BBI) Joint Undertakings.