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. ExperienceConsultant (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 (specialisation 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 |