As of 1 December 2024, Lanfranco Li Cauli holds the post of Delegated General Director of the Piccolo Teatro di Milano – Teatro d’Europa, alongside the Director Claudio Longhi. 

From December 2016 to November 2024 he served as Director of Marketing and Fundraising for the Teatro alla Scala. In particular, from 2021 to 2024, he worked alongside the Superintendent Dominique Meyer, playing an active role in the organisational restructuring, sustainability and technological innovation processes for the Theatre. In 2023 he participated in the founding of the “Teatro alla Scala Association of America”. 

He worked at the Piccolo Teatro di Milano – Teatro d’Europa from 1998 to 2015, a period that culminated in his appointment as Director of Marketing and Communication. In this role, he was responsible for the technological innovation process, aimed at developing and consolidating new audiences. He also managed international marketing activities for the many tours organised by the Piccolo. 

After studying the classics, he graduated with a degree in Economics and Commerce at the Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milan, specialising in Marketing. 
He is a frequent guest at conferences, courses and University Master courses on a national and international level, speaking on themes of theatrical management, marketing and fundraising. 

Since 2009 he has been a regular contributor to a range of national and international publications on the theme of cultural management. 

He has been a teacher at the Sant’Egidio Community School of Italian language and culture in Milan since 2019. 

In 2022 he was awarded “Cavaliere Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana” by the President of the Italian Republic Sergio Mattarella.