Elena Pistorio
Director and Board Member, Pistorio Foundation

Elena Olga Pistorio is currently a Board Member and Director of the Pistorio Foundation. Elena moved with her family to Singapore in 2005, and joined the Pistorio Foundation shortly after its founding by her father, Pasquale Pistorio, in April 2005 in Geneva. In 2008, Elena set up and headed the Singapore Volunteer Chapter of the Foundation for eight years and established the Pistorio Foundation Thailand branch in Chiang Rai,  while coordinating projects in Asia and Africa.  Elena returned to Milan, Italy, in 2016 and oversaw the transfer of the Foundation headquarters from Geneva to Milan and the launch of a new project in Italy.

Before joining the Pistorio Foundation, Elena was the first Director of Operations of STMicroelectronics Foundation (STF), from 2002 to 2005. In that capacity, Elena implemented the Digital Unify (DU) program that reflected STMicroelectronics’ commitment, as active member of the UN ICT Task Force led by Kofi Annan, to contribute in bridging the growing global Digital Divide. The DU project was initially deployed in countries where STMicroelectronics was present, consisting in the set-up of computer labs, train the trainer programs, and computer literacy classes in underprivileged communities, in partnership with local schools, universities, municipalities, and other NGOs. To date, STF counts over 880,000 trainees in 28 countries.

Elena completed her IB Diploma from the American School of Milan and her double BA in Economics and Media Culture with Honors from Brown University. Upon graduating, Elena worked as a Business Analyst in Ansaldo, a Genoa based MNC.  Elena then moved to Paris and quenched her passion for filmmaking by working on productions of feature films, directing and producing a number of short films, and completing a Masters Degree in Film and Television Production at Goldsmith College, London.

Elena is fluent in English, Italian and French.  Her free time is dedicated to her family, championing environmental causes, and nurturing her interest in film, yoga, nutrition, and traveling.