Stefania is Head of the Foreign Policy Unit at the Centre for European Policy Studies. Previously she led the Global Connectivity Programme. Her research focuses on Global Gateway and EU-Asia relations where she also consults in Senior/Team Leader roles. She is a frequent commentator at leading media and regularly briefs senior policymakers – including the European Parliament and various European Prime Minister’s offices.  

Stefania is also an experienced Public Diplomacy expert and has worked extensively in Track 2 and Track 1,5 formats, mostly – though not exclusively – between the EU and third countries. Between 2014 and 2017, she lived in India, working on EU-India defence cooperation for Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI) and Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES). Previously Stefania worked in the European Commission – Political & Security Committee team and then represented the EC at the Politico-Military Group and the NATO Parliamentary Assembly. Stefania worked and studied also in Israel (at the International Institute of Counter-Terrorism), the United States (at the Italian Embassy, at SAIS and at San Francisco State University), France (at Science Po Grenoble) and Spain (Leonardo da Vinci programme).