While employed in 2007, she enrolled in the Global Leadership and Public Policy for the 21st Century program at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

[1][12] Issues such as climate change, identity and gender inequalities, human rights, innovation, and talent empowerment all sit at the core of its programme and research.

[16] In 2007, she joined the Women's Leadership Board at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, a body founded at Harvard University to promote gender equality in society and politics.

[17] In 2012, the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities appointed her to the Board of Directors of MAXXI - Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI Secolo in Rome.

[22] Trussardi sits on the executive committee of Associazione Volta and is a founding member of the Global Shapers Advisory Board in Milan.