Lucia Fanicchi

IAP Administrative Assistant (C/O TWAS, Trieste)

Lucia Fanicchi
Biography

Lucia Fanicchi joined IAP in 2023 as Administrative Assistant, her main focus being the projects on Biosecurity and on Climate Change and Health. From 2016 to 2023 she has been working for the Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD), where she was responsible for the general Secretariat (meetings, conferences, workshops, awards etc.), the OWSD membership network and National Chapters. She previously worked in Venice at the Global Campus of Human Rights, where she managed the Secretariat of the Master's Degree in Human Rights and Democratisation (E.MA) as well as the EU-UN Fellowship Programme and the E.MA Internship Programme. Previously, she held an internship at the Italian Institute of Culture at the Italian Embassy in Pretoria, South Africa, and worked with the International Summer Academy for Creative Arts and Media in Venice. Lucia holds a B.A. in Modern Languages and History from Ca’ Foscari University in Venice, an M.A. in Languages and Literature (English and German) from the University of Trento, Italy, and a Magister Artium in Germanistik und Anglistik from the Technische Universität Dresden, Germany. In 2011 Lucia also attended the Venice School of Human Rights: Development Cluster.