Maria Vittoria Massarin
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Maria Vittoria Massarin is a junior researcher within IAI’s Defence and Security programmes. She holds a Master’s degree in International Relations from La Sapienza University of Rome. She was a trainee in the Director General’s Cabinet at the European Space Agency and at the Ministry of Economic Development. She is a volunteer at United Network, an NGO officially associated with the DGC of the United Nations, where she oversaw the External Relations group and served as committee director. She collaborates with a Cambridge and Trinity examination centre and was a copywriter for Il Nuovo Magazine, a newspaper in the Northern Rome area.