Programme Coordinator, Geoeconomics
Geoeconomics
English, German, and Italian
Chiara Malaponti is the Geoeconomics programme coordinator at the European Council on Foreign Relations.
Previously, she was a communications assistant and a communications intern at ECFR, and an intern at the former Italian honorary consulate in Leipzig, Germany. She has collaborated closely with youth-led research associations, focusing mainly on diplomatic and economic relations between EU member states and Russia, as well as on geopolitical issues in the Arctic.
She holds a BSc in political science and international relations from the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan, an MSc in international relations from the same university, and an MSc in European and international economics from the Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg.
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