Lucia is a senior researcher at the Osservatorio di Pavia, an Italian institute for media studies. Since 1995, she gained significant experience conducting analysis on media agenda setting, electoral and political communication, social issues as well as gender representation.
Lucia joined the electoral world taking part to international election observation and assessment missions with different organisations (OSCE/ODIHR, Council of Europe and the EU) as Media Analyst. She worked in a number of countries in Africa, East Europe and Caucasus, Central Asia and Latin America, providing analysis on media regulatory systems, freedom of expression as well as freedom of information, and setting up and coordinating media monitoring units. She lately joined electoral assistance projects as public outreach, communication and media regulation specialist in post conflict/transition countries such as Cote d’Ivoire, Tunisia and Afghanistan, providing assistance to electoral management bodies. She is currently employed in Senegal as civic ad voter education advisor with ECES assistance project PAPE Senegal.
She holds a degree in Intercultural Communication and a LLM in International Human Rights Law with the University of London.
