Claudio Cappon has held several prominent managerial roles in the Italian public sector. He served as Deputy Director General and Director General of RAI from 1998 to 2002, and again as Director General from 2006 to 2009. He was Vice President of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) from 2009 to 2014. Since 2016, he has been Secretary General of COPEAM. Cappon was also a professor at SciencesPo Paris, teaching “Public Service Media in Europe” (2010-2019), and since 2018, he has chaired the JTI Project, promoting media quality standards.