Chiara Trozzo is a Senior Scientific Manager at the Advanced Training and Education Centre (CMCC), where she leads training and knowledge exchange activities. She also works on several research projects focusing on adaptation to climate change decision-making and policy development at the European and local levels.

After completing a second-level international master’s degree in cooperation and development (CDN Network – IUSS Pavia) and a master’s degree in international and diplomatic affairs (University of Bologna, Forlì campus), she managed and participated in several climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction projects with international organisations and NGOs in various Latin American countries.

In Colombia, she worked with the UN World Food Programme, leading multimillion-dollar climate change and food security projects in collaboration with a wide range of stakeholders, including governments, UN agencies, NGOs, academia, and civil society, and providing technical assistance on resilience and climate change to the WFP Country Office and its partners. She also contributed to resource mobilisation with the EU and other international donors, such as ECHO, the Adaptation Fund and USAID. Chiara has also managed disaster risk reduction projects in rural and urban areas in Guatemala and Peru, coordinating capacity-building activities on DRR for local authorities and grassroots organisations.