Barbara Morgante is the current (since 21 December 2015) CEO of the Italian railway company Trenitalia. She previously worked as business counselor and then she worked as marketing advisor. She started to work for Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane in 1995. She graduated from the University of Bologna in Statistical and Economic Science in 1986. In 2006 she was named Director of Strategy and Planning of RFI SpA, with responsibility for planning, marketing and business plans, international programmes and strategies for the development of the network.