Francesco Briganti serves as the Secretary General of the Cross Border Benefits Alliance–Europe (CBBA-Europe), a prominent Brussels based EU advocacy association comprising pension funds, insurance companies, asset managers, pension administrators, law firms, and other national and international associations. In addition of being an observatory on pension systems in Europe, ongoing trends, and the national and EU regulations that influence them, CBBA-Europe interacts daily with the European Union. Its primary mission is to promote cross-border and pan-European arrangements for pensions and other employee and social benefit plans. The organization aims to eliminate the persistent national fragmentation and barriers to worker mobility within the EU concerning social benefits. Francesco is also a member of the Stakeholders Group on Occupational Pensions (OPSG) of the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA). From June 2016 to 2018, he coordinated the World Pension Alliance (WPA), of which CBBA-Europe is also a member. Prior to this, he was the Director of the European Association of Paritarian Institutions of Social Protection (AEIP). AEIP represents those social protection institutions, including pension funds, jointly managed by employers’ and employees’ representatives. Francesco holds a law degree from the University of Bologna (Italy), a master’s degree in international political economy from the University of Kent (UK), and a Ph.D. in EU law from the University Foundation Marco Biagi in Modena (Italy), where he focused on creating a pan-European Occupational Pension Plan.
He has delivered numerous lectures on the EU at various universities and has spoken at over 300 public events worldwide.
Co-author of the 2024 book “European Pension Law”, he wrote the chapter on the mobility of workers in the EU regarding the acquisition and safeguarding of their pension rights under Pillar 2 (occupational/workplace pensions) and Pillar 3 (personal/individual ones).
In addition to his mother tongue, Italian, Francesco also speaks English, French, and Spanish.