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SCS-Staff-Diego-Battistessa

Diego Battistessa

Senior Strategic Adviser Diego has worked in various contexts of international cooperation in Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America. Between 2013 and 2015 he implemented United Nations projects – UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency – to support Colombian refugees in Ecuador and Colombia. He collaborated with many universities and institutes as an expert of international cooperation, […]

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SCS Alumni - Testimonials - Alessio Di Carlo

Alessio Di Carlo

Master PMC Director Alessio Di Carlo is a Management Engineer who started his professional carrier as consultant and working within multinational companies in Italy and abroad. He quit working in the For-Profit sector and adapted his knowledge and skills to development projects, in particular to international development. After being responsible for projects implemented Middle East and African

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Tanja Berretta

Coaching Exercises – Students Help Line Coordinator With an academic background in Development Sociology, over the past 15 years Tanja Berretta served different international organisations across the world, including UNHCR, UNDP, Oxfam and Handicap International. She took part to the response and reconstruction operations of some of the largest humanitarian crisis of the past decade, with a commitment to contribute to improving the overall quality of programming and the impact of

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SCS - Staff - Michael Odong

Michael Odong

Michael Odong Country and Partnership Manager Uganda Michael Odong was born and raised in Northern Uganda. He spent his childhood and early education in the Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps. He began his career as a dentist and later made a change and graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Community Psychology. He then obtained a Master

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SCS Staff - Donna Kimberley Ratier

Donna Ratier Kimberley

HR and Admin Coordinator Donna Ratier Kimberley was born in Spain, but she is from many different places. Her grandfather was from Poland, her father is from France and her mother from England. After graduating in Law, she became a lawyer, while working in the field of administration and finance in different countries during her

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Tirso Puig de la Bellacasa

Career Development Service Advisor Tirso was born in Madrid, Spain. Graduated in Educational Sciences at the University of Bologna, he then specialized in Intercultural Pedagogy. After a first work experience as street educator, he then worked for more than 15 years as Project Manager and Coordinator in the sectors of child protection and education for NGOs like Ricerca e Cooperazione, GVC and

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SCS - Staff - Federica De Benedittis

Federica De Benedittis

Career Development Service Coordinator For over 20 years Federica De Benedittis has been working on fundraising, development of non-profit organizations, leadership development and soft skills in the field of international cooperation and the Third Sector, at an international level. After earning a degree in Law with a thesis in Finance on “The impact of international aid in developing

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SCS - Staff - Camilla Stecca

Camilla Stecca

Master HOPE Coordinator Camilla has an educational background in development cooperation and project design. In the last 15 years she has worked with several international organisations, including Solidarités International, ACTED, OXFAM, Humanity & Inclusion and Terre des Hommes, in war and post-emergency contexts, mostly in Africa and then in Haiti and Lebanon, dealing with the management of

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SCS - Staff - Chiara Viviani

Chiara Vivani

Fundraiser specialized Chiara is a fundraiser specialized in corporate fundraising that has been working for quite some time with the international organization, Compassion Italia Onlus, which works to combat the extreme poverty of children living in the most deprived areas in Africa, Asia and South America. A law graduate from La Sapienza in Rome, she

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