Diego Modonesi is currently Head of Sector in OLAF’s Trade and Customs Unit.
He has over 25 years of professional experience, primarily in the field of customs, both at the European and national levels. At EU level, he served as an investigator in customs and trade fraud for over six years and as an external auditor for the EU Common Agricultural Policy, focusing on export refunds, for a similar period.
At national level, he worked for the Italian Customs Agency in various offices — local, regional, and national.
He completed a PhD in European Fiscal Studies, jointly supervised by the Universities of Bologna and Louvain-la-Neuve, in 2012.