Profile

Over the years, I have engaged in multilateral negotiations, innovative research, capacity building trainings and postgraduate teaching on major human rights topics. The knowledge, skills and insight that I gained through my cross-sectoral working experience have allowed me to succeed in demanding multicultural and multidimensional milieus.

Experience

Consultant (home-based)
UNICEF, New York, USA, and UN CEDAW Committee, Geneva, Switzerland
January 2015 - Present

Adjunct Lecturer

University of Padova, Italy
September 2014 – Present

Instructor

Human Rights Education Associates (HREA), Cambridge, MA, USA
September 2010 – Present

Programme Director of the European Master's Degree in Human Rights and Democratisation
EIUC - European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation, Venice, Italy
July 2011 – July 2013

Research Coordinator
Right to Education Project, London, United Kingdom
September 2009 – June 2011

Lecturer
Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK
August 2004 – August 2009

Human Rights Adviser
Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Rome/Permanent Mission of Italy to the UN, Geneva and New York
February 2001 – April 2005

Human Rights Fellow
European Commission, Delegation to the United Nations in Geneva
February 2003 – July 2003

Tutor
EIUC - European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation, Venice, Italy
September 2000 – February 2001

Human rights and development education specialist
UNICEF Italy, Office of the Chairman in the Provincial Committee in Como
June 1995 – May 1998


Select teaching and training

Master in Democratic Governance - Democracy and Human Rights in the MENA Region
European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation, Venice, Italy
15 April 2015

European Master's Degree in Human Rights and Democratisation - Second Semester course
University of Seville, Spain
24-27 March 2015

Vienna Master of Arts in Human Rights
University of Vienna, Austria
12 March 2015, 23 May 2014

European Master's Degree in Human Rights and Democratisation - Second Semester course
Universidad de Deusto, Spain
17-21 February 2014

Capacity building training: advocating for the right to education in the oPt (West Bank and Gaza)
UNESCO-Ramallah Office and Right to Education Project
25 March-2 April 2011

MA in Applied Human Rights and LLM in International Human Rights and Practice
University of York/Centre for Applied Human Rights, York, UK
February 2010 and February 2011

Master of Advanced Studies in Children's Rights
University of Fribourg - Institut Universitaire Kurt Bösch, Fribourg/Sion, Switzerland
November 2009, January 2010 and March 2012


Training on Human Rights Based Approaches to Poverty, Development and Advocacy
ActionAid International, London, UK
October 2007


Education


PhD in Human Rights
Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London, UK

European Master’s Degree in Human Rights and Democratisation
University of Padua (1st semester in Venice, Italy; 2nd semester in Copenhagen, Denmark)

Laurea in Political Science (s
pecialisation in international relations)
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy


Languages

English, French, Italian


Other activities

Advocacy Institute

Human Right Education Associates (HREA), Cambridge, MA, USA
August 2013

Trustee
ChildHope UK
2009-2011

Membership
International Childhood and Youth Research Network (ICYRN)
Since 2008

Membership
Children’s Rights Information Network (CRIN)
Since 2000

5th Summer Session on Human Rights and the Right to Education
OIDEL and EUM, Geneva, Switzerland
August 1999

29th Study Session on Human Rights
International Institute of Human Rights, Strasbourg, France
July 1998