Stefania MINERVINO

Stefania Minervino works with DG DEVCO as a Policy Officer in the Resilience and Fragility Unit (B2). She works on policies, practices and methodologies linked to conflict prevention and peacebuilding, as well as resilience and fragility. She is the focal point for conflict analysis, conflict sensitivity, the EU conflict Early Warning System and Women, Peace and Security. She has participated to several missions on conflict prevention, conflict analysis and conflict sensitivity in South Asia, South East Asia, and Latin America. She has previously worked in the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission in Ireland, focussing on project management (European Social Fund). Stefania's long-standing engagement and work experience spans from working as a Human Rights and Indigenous Affairs Observer in Guatemala with the UN Peacebuilding mission (MINUGUA), to project management from design to implementation - as well as diversity management, interculturalism and equality mainstreaming. Stefania has also a specific expertise on gender equality and indigenous peoples' rights. She has attended specialised courses on conflict sensitivity and conflict analysis, indigenous peoples and gender mainstreaming. Stefania is a PhD candidate in the "Doctoral Programme in Human Rights, Democracy and International Justice", with the University of Valencia, Spain.