 She is a professor of operations research in the faculty of economics and business of the University of Brescia, a former vice chancellor and dean at the University, the former president of the Association of European Operational Research Societies and the INFORMS Transportation Science and Logistics Society, and the president of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies.Speranza earned a master's degree in applied mathematics in 1980 and an advanced degree in applied mathematics in 1983 at the University of Milan.After working as an assistant professor at the University of Milan from 1983 to 1987, and as an associate professor at the University of Udine from 1987 to 1990,
she moved to the University of Brescia.