Migration policy

Working in EU Public Diplomacy since 2006: as an EU diplomat, press officer, communication manager, EU project team leader and as a strategic communication expert.
Since October 2025, Associate Director of Strategic Communication at the European Policy Center.
Founding staff of the European Endowment for Democracy.
7+ years Damascus and Kyiv.
Active in pan-European political party Volt Europa.
Political Science degrees from Yale, SciencesPo-Paris and Free University-Berlin, and Harvard certificate in "Leadership and Community Organising".
Author of “EU Public Diplomacy in an ever-changing world” (University of Southern California).
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My training was in international relations, communications, languages and law, and I have HQ and field experience. I have been working since 2002 for NGOs and international organizations. I started in Italy within a European Commission network, following up projects in Brazil, India and Russia. My first position in Geneva was as representative of the Italian Ministry of Economic Development to Swiss and international organizations. Successive positions, for Swiss Development Agency (Rwanda), UNICEF (Mali) the EU, the UNHCR
(Greece), the International Federation of the Red Cross, enabled me to utilize my interests. These include humanitarian affairs, human rights and solution finding in line with the dignity of the human being. My work has been in the areas of public relations, communications, resource management and research.

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.