Benassi Andrea is the Secretary General of UEAPME since January 2008. He
previously served as Director for European Integration and Foreign
Markets at the Italian crafts and SMEs organisation Confartigianato,
a position he occupied since October 2005. He also served as
Director of Confartigianato’s Brussels office from October 1999 to
September 2005.

A member of the Advisory group for Internationalisation at the
Italian Ministry for International Trade and a Development
Cooperation SME Expert at the Italian Foreign Office, Mr Benassi also
sits as expert in a number of Committees and Technical Groups at
UN and EC level.