Licia Cianetti is a researcher studying democracy in ethnocultural diverse and divided societies. She is the author of "The Quality of Divided Democracies: Minority Inclusion, Exclusion, and Representation in the New Europe" (University of Michigan Press, 2019) and co-editor of "Rethinking 'Democratic Backsliding' in Central and Eastern Europe" (Routledge, 2019). She is currently working on the research project "What Happened to the Multicultural City? Effects of Austerity and Nativism", funded by the Leverhulme Trust: www.multiculturalcities.com. She has a regional expertise in Eastern Europe and works on urban policies of inclusion and city-to-city policy exchange networks.

I am a BCG Senior Partner (Managing Director and Senior Partner with Boston Consulting Group) working specialized in human capital development including education, education for employment, labor market and women economic empowerment.

International security expert with a professional background in research and teaching/training. My work focuses on international cooperation and state strategies towards violent non-state actors and their various illicit activities, micro dynamics of irregular conflicts, and Russia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. I hold a PhD in International Relations from the University of St Andrews (Scotland, UK) where I explored Russian counterterrorist tactics applied in the North Caucasus, and a MA in Political Science from the Southern Federal University (Russia). I am a proficient user of R, SPSS, selected Adobe Creative Cloud applications, and fluent in English and Russian. Professional duties include data-focused research and design/management of a regional N-large data-sets on micro dynamics of violent non-state actors. Building on experience of working as a graphic designer, I enrich presentation and enhance perception of research outcomes by its visualisation through relevant graphic forms including maps, illustrations, and graphs produced in R, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, or hand-drawn creative images.

I currently work in the sector of training and education where I develop and manage projects with Belgian public actors (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, development cooperation agency) that aim at developing the skills of foreign civil servants and sharing best practices. My competences include the identification and implementation with third countries' training institutes in the field of public administration. I also developed strong knowledge in the field of Civilian Crisis Management from the European Union's missions and experts' training perspective. Along my work experience I have strong interest and certain experience in the field of migration and asylum in which I specialised through studies and that I further developed by working in an NGO for underage migrants in France.