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Carlo Diego D'Andrea (born November 13, 1978, in Viareggio, Tuscany, Italy) is an Italian corporate lawyer with practice mainly in China and Europe. He is a speaker, an author and the current Managing partner and attorney at law of the D’Andrea & Partners law firm based in Shangai. D’Andrea provides legal services and advice to foreign clients about investment in China and to Chinese companies in their establishment in Europe. He is best known as the current national Vice-president of the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China, a non-profit organization that represents companies from the European Union operating in China as well as Chairman of the board of directors of its Shangai chapter.

Biography
In 2003, D’Andrea attended a specialization course at the Universitat de Barcelona. He received a law degree in 2004 from the University of Teramo (Università degli Studi di Teramo), an Italian public research university located in Teramo, Italy. His thesis was in European Union law with title: “The European Union and the fight against the terrorism”. Then, he was granted in 2005 a Master post lauream in Corporate Advisor by the Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli better known as LUISS (Italian for ''Free International University for Social Studies - Guido Carli", an independent, private university in Rome, Italy. In the same year, D’Andrea moved to China where he received a Chinese language diploma at Nanjing University in China in 2007. Carlo is married and lives in Shanghai, Minsk, Russia and Pescara in Abruzzo, Italy.

Career
Since May 2017, D’Andrea is Chairman of the board, Shangai chapter of the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China and National Vice President. Since 2016, D’Andrea is a lecturer at Nanjing University’s law school were he is teaching the course “Introduction to the Italian Civil and Commercial Law”. In 2015, he was a visiting scholar at the Koguan Law School of Shanghai Jiao Tong University where he taught Italian civil and commercial law. Since August 2013, D’Andrea is the Managing partner of D’Andrea & Partners in charge of the development and operations of at the firm's headquarters in Shanghai and its branches in China, Italy, India and Vietnam, and the Russian desk. D’Andrea is also a speaker who contributed to the “5 China Must Have” and selected member of the panel discussing about China 2025 EUCCC Study at  “Made in China 2025”, an event in Milan, Italy, that aims to modernize Chinese manufacturing sector within a decade. He authored business guides on topics on China including free trade zone, intellectual property right, and  foreign direct investment, provides consultation   and contributes to the Nanjinger, the province of Nanjing's largest English news network. From September 2009 to September 2013, he was managing partner of Greater China of a law firm's offices in Shanghai, Nanjing. He held several executive positions at the local Shangai and Nanjing chapters of the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China from 2012 to 2014, China Italy Chamber of Commerce and Accademia Italiana della Cucina Delegazione Shanghai.