Francesco Milleri is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of EssilorLuxottica.
He graduated with honors in Law from the University of Florence, where he worked as Assistant Professor of political economy, from 1984 until 1986. He later earned in 1987 an MBA in Business Administration with high merit at the school of management at the Bocconi University in Milan, followed by two years of specialization in Corporate Finance at the Stern School of Business at New York University as the assignee of the "Donato Menichella" scholarship from Banca d’Italia.
Francesco Milleri began his career as a business consultant for Italian firms and multinationals in 1988. He gained international experience working in a variety of industries, including mechanics, consumer goods, financial institutions and pharmaceuticals.
Alongside business consulting activities, he founded in 1996 and developed for 20 years a group of companies focused on technology and digital automation platforms.
He is also Director of the Leonardo Del Vecchio Foundation and of IEO European Institute of Oncology.
In 2025, he was awarded the honor of “Cavaliere del Lavoro” by the President of the Italian Republic.
While maintaining his responsibilities at Luxottica, Francesco Milleri was involved in the business combination between Essilor and Luxottica from January 2017. In close collaboration with Paul du Saillant and his teams, he worked on advancing the integration and synergy plans of the two companies. He was appointed as CEO of EssilorLuxottica in December 2020 and as Chairman and CEO on June 28, 2022.
