Governing Council
Loredana Teodorescu
President
She is an expert in European and immigration policy, and she is passionate about gender issues. Loredana Teodorescu is the head of European and International Affairs of the Luigi Sturzo Institute, coordinator of the Secretariat of the Global Alliance of Regional Women Mediator Networks and co-founder of WIIS Italy Mentoring Programme “Global Women Leaders.”
She mainly deals with immigration policy of the European Union; EU governance, foreign and neighborhood policy; the link between internal security and external action, women leadership and woemn in international relations. In this field she promotes and coodinates research programmes, is part of working groups and expert committees, teaches and conducts analysis.
After the master’s degree in International Relations, she obtained a PhD in Political Science-European and International Studies at the University of Rome Tre.
She collaborates with various think tanks and foundations in Europe. She is currently associate researcher at the Wilfried Martens Center for European Studies in Brussels for which she produces the #HerAndEU podcast, is a Research Fellow at the European University Institute having received a the HEAU research grant, and is Senior Research Fellow at WIIS Global.
She is also a consultant for organisations and institutions such as the Italian Senate Special Commission on Human Rights and has worked for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs during the Italy’s Presidency at the European Union.
Nicoletta Pirozzi
Vicepresident
Nicoletta Pirozzi directs the “EU, politics and institutions” program and is responsible for the institutional relations of the Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI). She mainly works on EU governance, foreign policy, European foreign and security policy and crisis management. From 2013 to 2019 she was Adjunct Professor at the Department of Political Sciences of the University of Roma Tre. In 2018 she was Marshall Memorial Fellow and Associate Analyst at the EU Institute for Security Studies (EU-ISS) in Paris. In 2012, she was seconded as the national expert to the European External Action Service (SEA) in Brussels.
She is the author and editor of numerous publications, and an active member of several research associations and institutions. She has a degree in Political Science from the University of Pisa and from the Sant’Anna High School of Pisa, has a Masters in European Studies from the College of Europe in Bruges and a PhD in Institutions and Policies from the University Cattolica of Milan. She is politically active in Rome and she coordinates a community of experts on international affairs fostering a progressive liberal view of Italy’s foreign policy. European integration and gender equality are the two linchpins of her social engagement, which she carries out with enthusiastic and committed people from all around Europe.
Giorgia Santamaria
Treasurer and Organisational Secretariat
g.santamaria@wiisitaly.org
With a degree in International Relations and Human Rights and a Master in International Conflict Studies from King’s College London, Giorgia was programme assistant at the Istituto Affari Internazione where she worked on the educational activities, a project on non-proliferation and disarmament and was a part of the Secretariat of the Mediterranean Women Mediators Network (MWMN). Within the context of the Network she discovered WIIS Italy and activitely engaged with the association.
Prior to her work at IAI she was the Public Engagement Assistant at Oxfam Italia where she also managed the President’s Secretariat.
Passionate about international security issues, within WIIS Italy, Giorgia is responsible for the membership and provides general support to the conduct of activities and initiatives.