Misa Labarile, PhD is an EU civil servant working at the European Commission on policy development in the tourism sector (Directorate-General Internal Market, Industries, Entrepreneurship and SMEs). A social scientist by background, she has worked on EU affairs for more than ten years, not only at the European Commission but also in academia and for the Italian government, in Brussels, Milan, Boston and Rome. Misa speaks Italian, English, French and Spanish.