Electoral Assistance and Observation

I am a programme and project manager for EU and UN funded projects in the security sector, specialised in capacity building actions, police and military training, institutional advising, with specific focus on counter-terrorism, asymmetric threats, organised crime, technology innovation and research.

I directly participated in about 60 projects over 17 years in Europe, South East Asia, MENA, Sahel, Horn of Africa regions, as project manager, team member or short term expert.
I hold a Degree in Law and Master Degrees in “Theories and Methods in criminal investigation” and in "Strategic Information and Information Security", as well as specialization courses in CBRNe intelligence, crisis management, civil-military cooperation, law enforcement.

Italian Carabinieri military officer (reserve) specialised in international cooperation, I work as Senior Expert in EU funding at Eutalia (public company), dealing with operational as well as administrative and contractual duties.
Member of the Management Board at the Observatory on Security and CBRNe Defence – OSDIFE, Italy and co-founder at Il Caffè Geopolitico, cultural association and magazine on geopolitics.

I am an Italian lawyer focusing on human rights advocacy and litigation.

Head of country office of ADA in Kosovo, then Burkina Faso; responsible for programming, planning, monitoring etc of AUT dev. support to the partner country. Focal areas - rural (econ.) dev., education. Increased activity in gender, minority support, environment.

Then Team Leader of IPPSHAR (IGAD Promoting Peace and Security in the Horn of Africa Region) programme (financed via EUTF with cofunding from AUT, SWE, NL).

Now Country Director Swisscontact Mali - professional education, labour market insertion, entrepreneurship, rural development; focus on gender, climate change sensitive programming.