Michele Uva

SpecialityUEFA - Director of Football & Social Responsibility

He is sports manager with remarkable skills in company restructuring and development with a strategic focus on processes of transparency and accountability He has been appointed Football & Social Responsibility Director of UEFA since January 2021 He has dedicated an entire career to professional sport in several contexts, disciplines and environments. He has performed the role of CEO in sports organisations such as the Italian Football Association (FIGC), the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI), professional football clubs (Parma and Lazio), basketball club (Lottomatica Roma) and volleyball clubs (Bologna, Treviso and Matera), as well as Deputy Commissioner in Italian Serie A football league. Between 2017 and 2020 he was UEFA Vice-president, Chairman of Club Licensing Committee and member of several UEFA Committee: Finance, Club Competition SA, Strategic Steering, Professional Football Strategic, Women Author of six books on sport and football industry, he is currently a lecturer for several masters organised by international and Italian universities.