Pinar Serdengecti

Pinar has over 20 years of experience in the telecommunications sector, while working for various operators and associations. Before joining Connect Europe at the end of April 2026, she worked as Director of Regulatory and Competition Affairs at ecta that she joined in October 2021.

From 2017 to 2021, she worked as Director of Regulatory and Competition Affairs at Iliad Italia, the fourth MNO in Italy, which she joined in October 2017. From 2008 until 2017, she worked in the Regulation and Competition Affairs Department at Vodafone Italia, contributing to the start-up and growth of its fixed services business in Italy, and overseeing all network and economic regulatory aspects of the fixed business, and ultimately also the Content/STB and Copyright regulatory aspects.

She started working at Telecom Italia in 2004 as an analyst in the International Regulatory Affairs Department and later as a specialist in Telecom Italia's Regulatory Strategy Department.

Pinar is born in Istanbul and holds a BSc in Economics & Social Sciences from Bocconi University in Milan, an MA in International Management and Business Administration from Bocconi University and an MA in Economics of Competition Law from King’s College - University of London.