Paola’s work has focused mainly on fund of funds investments. Besides the investment activity she has conceived and developed new and innovative initiatives such as: (i) Boost Africa (a joint initiative between the European Investment Bank, the African for Development Bank and the European Commission focusing on supporting the nascent African Venture Capital industry through fund of funds investments and capacity building programmes for first time fund managers); (ii) the Space for Med Acceleration Programme (a knowledge transfer mechanism between the European Space Agency and MENA entrepreneurs); (iii) the MENA Seed Accelerators Facility (a capacity building programme for the newly created MENA accelerators in the wake of the Arab