Dr Graziella Piga is an international specialist on gender equality and social inclusion. She combines over 20 years of experience in field missions (OSCE, UN Women, INGO) with consulting work, research, analysis on gender equality and women, peace and security (WPS) in conflict-affected and fragile states. She has extensive experience in gender-sensitive policies and programme review, design, monitoring, evaluation and learning. From 2011 to 2013 she was the manager and chief technical adviser of the UN Women Cross-regional programme on the implementation of the UNSCR on WPS, covering 8 countries. Dr Piga has an excellent knowledge and experience of international human rights instruments and principles and their application. Since 2014 she has undertaken a variety of short-term assignments for several IOs, including the UN, the OSCE and the EU. She was an expert of the EU IcSP Gender Facility I and led the GF II. She has recently joined Project HOPE as their Regional Gender Equality and Social Inclusion Director providing technical guidance to their teams in Ukraine, Romania, Moldova and Poland. Dr Piga holds a PhD in Gender and Politics from Surrey University (UK) with a thesis on the gender dimension of the EU Foreign and Security Policy. She also holds an MA in Russian Studies from Bologna University (Italy) and an MSc in Development Practice from Oxford Brookes University (UK). She is fluent in English and proficient in French and Russian. Italian is her mother tongue.
