Role
Senior Foreign Policy Expert at ECCO, an independent Italian climate think tank .
Bio
Silvia Francescon served as Director of the Rome office of the European Council on Foreign Relations for nine years. She subsequently served for four years in the Office of the Prime Minister, G7 Sherpa Office. Specifically, in 2016-2017, in preparation for and during the Italian G7 Presidency, she oversaw the gender equality dossier and contributed to the drafting of the Leaders' Declaration.
From 2007 to 2009, she worked at the Presidency of the Council of Ministers as Deputy Head of the G8-G20 Sherpa Office, where she coordinated the team that prepared dossiers and bilateral meetings for both the Prime Minister and the Sherpa. She also served at the United Nations, as Italy's coordinator of the Millennium Development Goals Campaign, and was a negotiator of international and European environmental agreements for the Ministry of the Environment for four years. Previously, she worked at the OECD (Environment Directorate, Paris), the WTO (Legal Affairs Directorate, Geneva), and the European Commission (DG Agriculture, Brussels).
Silvia Francescon was a researcher in international environmental law at Leiden University (Netherlands) and in international law at the University of Ferrara, Faculty of Law. She holds a Master's degree in international environmental law from SOAS, London, and graduated with honors in law from the University of Ferrara.
She is a member of the IAI board, of the CESPI scientific committee, of the Strategic Committee of the BA in Global Governance at Tor Vergata and is a founding member of Women in International Security – Italy.
Current projects: activities " crafting a new generation of leaders - personal and professional mastery " and " making Europe the world leader for sustainable development ".
Previous highlights : two Italian Presidencies of the G7/G8 (in 2009 and 2017, at the Presidency of the Council of Ministers), one Italian Presidency of the European Union (2003) at the Ministry of the Environment; led the Italian campaign for the United Nations on the Millennium Development Goals and led the Rome office of the European Council on Foreign Relations for 9 years .