Carla Rinaldi

She started working in Reggio Emilia in 1970, first as pedagogista, then as pedagogical director of municipal early childhood services. In 1994 she became a consultant for Reggio Children, and then she was President of the company from 2007 to 2016.

Since 2011, the year in which it was founded, she has held the role of President of the Reggio Children Foundation - Centro Loris Malaguzzi ETS until December 2024, when she was appointed Honorary President.

Since 1999 she has been Professor of the course "The approach of Reggio Emilia municipal preschools" at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia.

She has been Visiting Professor at Webster University (St. Louis, Missouri – U.S.A.) and at Colorado University (Boulder, Colorado – U.S.A.). Since 2012 she is one of the international partners of the project “Thinkers in Residence” at the Department of the Premier and Cabinet – Government of South Australia in Adelaide (SA).

In all her capacities Carla Rinaldi has given many conferences in Italy and abroad, done many interviews and written several articles that testify the evolution of the Reggio Emilia experience over more than forty years in Italy and around the world.

In 2015 she was awarded the 2015 LEGO Prize.

In February 2020 she was invited to participate to the “Workshop on Education: The Global Compact to be held at the Vatican, in the Casina Pio IV, headquarters of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, on 6-7 February 2020.”