Business reporter, specialized in energy and clean tech, writing for several Italian papers, like Il Corriere della Sera and Il Sole 24 Ore. Main field of expertise: the challenges of global energy markets, both from the financial and the environmental point of view. Elena has been working on technological innovation since she moved to New York in 1997, right in the middle of the dot-com bubble, and then to Milan in 2001, after the dot-com bust. Before that, she worked for 15 years at a local daily in Trieste, where her focus was mainly on foreign affairs. She followed the end of the Cold War, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Balkan Wars, traveling extensively in Central and Eastern Europe.