Monica Secondino - Italy
Monica Secondino is the founder of Donne in Auto and a feature writer for Il Fatto Quotidiano, Auto and Motor 1 Italia.
Monica Secondino’s professional life took a turn in 2015. That year she participated as co-driver in the 2015 Mille Miglia aboard a 1951 Lancia Aurelia B20 driven by Cesare Fiorio, former sports director of the Ferrari, Ligier and Minardi Formula 1 teams in the 1990s and team manager of Lancia in the World Rally Championship in the 1970s-80s. The experience lived at the Mille Miglia and a family environment marked by automotive passion determined her to dedicate herself fully to motor journalism in 2017. That year she founded the media donneinauto.it, which offers test drives, events and interviews. «My intention is that the female perspective continues to emerge in the sector and that other women can also give free rein to their passion for cars. I want to contribute to dispel clichés about women and cars to convey the enormous strength and power of Italian female that drive their life. The timing and screening skills I’ve learned in the financial markets, combined with the power and control I experience in my sports car, are my secret sauce as a juror».
A graduate of the Bocconi University in Milan, Monica Secondino is an expert in financial instruments and has been working for 29 years in the world of high finance, where she deals with asset management on international markets. A sector that has only recently started to deal with sustainability and inclusion issues, just like automotive.
She currently writes on economic issues related to the automotive sector and does test drives for Il Fatto Quotidiano, one of the most widely read Italian newspapers; Auto.it, a leading motoring magazine; and Motor1.it, the first global automotive publication, available in different languages.