Paola de Ruggieri joined the FundRaising office at CMCC in 2022, after a six-month period as a Program Management Intern at the NGO Mani Tese.

She attended a Master course in International Cooperation at the ISPI School, whose main subjects of study were Project Cycle Management, followed by Development and Humanitarian Aid.

In 2013, she started to study the Arabic and English languages at the University of Turin, where she graduated in March 2017 in Foreign Languages and Literatures.
After her bachelor’s degree, she continued her studies at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano, where she studied Arabic and English languages and specialized mainly in courses on geoeconomics and foreign policies and graduated in Foreign Languages for International Relations in 2020.