Lara Comi received a bachelor's degree in economics in 2005 from Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan.

[citation needed] In 2007 she earned a master's in economics from Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, also in Milan.

[4] She serves on the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection and the delegation for relations with the United States.

[5] Lara Comi hired her mother as personal assistant at her office in the European Parliament and was sanctioned as a result.

[7] Lara Comi was sentenced to over 4 years of jail for a bribery scandal[8] in which she previously had over half a million euro seized by authorities[9].