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Matteo Mecacci
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Matteo Mecacci is Director of the European Policy Institute in Kyiv (EPIK) and Scientific Advisor at the Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI) in Rome.
He is an international policy and diplomacy expert with more than twenty years of high-level executive experience in geopolitics, democracy, human rights, rule of law, elections, and multilateral affairs. His work has focused on European security, transatlantic relations, Eurasia, democratic governance, and EU integration processes, with particular attention to Ukraine and the wider OSCE region.
From 2020 to 2024, Mecacci served as Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), where he led one of Europe’s principal institutions for democracy and human rights. During his tenure, he strengthened ODIHR’s overall work on Ukraine following Russia’s full-scale invasion, including its human rights, democratic governance, election-related, and accountability efforts. He also oversaw ODIHR’s election observation work across the OSCE region and represented the institution in high-level engagement with governments, international organizations, parliaments, and civil society.
Previously, he served as President of the International Campaign for Tibet in Washington, D.C., directing international advocacy with U.S. and European policymakers. He was also a Member of the Italian Parliament, where he served on the Foreign Affairs Committee and the Italian delegation to the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly.
Earlier in his career, Mecacci worked in New York with international civil society organizations on human rights, democracy, and international justice advocacy, including initiatives related to the International Criminal Court and the UN moratorium on the death penalty.
He has been a frequent speaker at international conferences and policy forums and a regular commentator in international media on democracy, human rights, European security, transatlantic affairs, and geopolitical developments.
He holds a Law Degree in International Law from the University of Florence.
Languages: Italian, English, French.
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