Mauro Patti, born in Italy in 1986, is an expert of international cooperation. Graduated in International Relations, has a professional background in human rights, advocacy strategy, development of social and health campaign, gained during his international experience within NGOs and public institutions.
He joined the Red Cross in 2014, covering different positions on international and national level. Currently he coordinates the international relations and cooperation of the Villa Maraini Foundation (www.villamaraini.it), the Italian Red Cross Agency on Drugs, managing international projects, advocacy initiatives on humanitarian drug policy and health campaigns on harm reduction worldwide. He's the policy assistant of its founder, Dr. Massimo Barra.
During his international career, he run training courses and advocacy projects in more than 20 countries. Mauro Patti is author of training manuals, articles, speeches and publications on harm reduction and humanitarian drug policy. During his institutional missions he had advocacy tasks and joined panels debate in national and international fora at UN and IFRC (NY, Geneva, Vienna), EU (EU Parliament and Commission), and Italian institutions. He's a co-founder of the Red Cross/Red Crescent international advocacy initiative "the Rome Consensus 2.0 towards a humanitarian drug policy" (www.romeconsensus.com).