Eleonora Ciafardoni is Senior Associate at Heidrick & Struggles in Milan since January 2025 within Global Financial Officers and Healthcare & Life Sciences Practices. Since 2019 she has worked on CFO, Risk and Insurance Director, Controlling Director, Audit Director and ESG Director searches across private equity, listed and family-owned companies, as well as senior roles in pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical technology, diagnostics, consumer health and healthcare services. She joined Heidrick & Struggles in 2020 as Analyst, became Associate in 2022 and served until 2025, following an Associate Intern role from February 2019 to January 2020 supporting research, candidate identification, interviews and reporting. Earlier she completed a Finance and Administration internship at Lorena Antoniazzi in 2017 focusing on financial statement reclassification and cost analysis. She holds a Master’s Degree cum laude in Markets and Business Strategies from Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (2020) with a thesis on Diversity Management, a degree in Business Administration from Università degli Studi di Perugia, and an exchange at the University of Hull.