As businesses navigate through disruptive times, they can generate long-term value through transformation keeping humans at the center followed by technology.

Donato Ferri

EY EMEIA Consulting Leader and EY Europe West Consulting Leader

Believer in the power of people for transformation. Ph.D in Psychology and Social Neuroscience. Champion of small businesses. Diversity advocate. Keen cyclist. Proud father.

Donato is leading a Consulting practice of over 60,000 people from across Europe, Middle East, India and Africa. Additionally, he is also responsible for the operations and growth of the Consulting practice in the Europe West region.

In a career spanning over two decades in the global EY organization, Donato has held a range of senior positions taking the lead on several large transformation projects in both private and public sector organization with a focus on organizational transformation, business innovation, technology, people and change management. 

Donato is an economics graduate and holds a Doctorate degree in Psychology and Social Neuroscience from the Sapienza University of Rome (Sapienza Universita di Roma).

How Donato is building a better working world

Donato is an advocate of inclusion and greater recognition for the strengths of a diverse workforce. The key to this is hiring, developing and empowering people within the EY organization, building solutions and assets with our ecosystem of partners. It has enabled the creation of more neurodivergent teams including the launch of the EY Psychology and Social Neurosciences Lab at the EY wavespace™ in Rome.

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