Association Board

After a Master’s Degree in Business Economics, with specialisation in Corporate Finance from the Luigi Bocconi University of Milan, she obtained a post-graduate Master Certificate in Corporate Finance from SDA Bocconi.

She is managing director of FICEP Spa, a three-generation, family-owned company, leader in the field of machine tools for steel construction, sheet metal working and hot forging.

In 2008, she was appointed as a member of the Executive Board of UCIMU-SISTEMI PER PRODURRE; from 2015 to October 2020, she was vice president of the association.

Since October 2020 she is president of UCIMU, and president of FONDAZIONE UCIMU, the non-profit organisation of UCIMU-SISTEMI PER PRODURRE, acting as an institute for economic and scientific research, in-depth cultural analysis, development, promotion and support of Italian machine tools and production systems manufacturers.

In the two-year period 2007-2009, she was a member of the General Committee of UNIVA, Union of Industrialists of the province of Varese and in 2017-2018, a member of the National Executive Committee of FEDERMECCANICA. 

Since 2019, she has been a member of the Italian delegation of CECIMO, European Association of Machine Tool Industries and, since June 2020, she has been the Treasurer of the Association.

She is member of the Steering Board of Fondazione Edison.

Barbara Colombo is married and mother of two children.