Chiara Grigolo is Associate Programme Officer for the Women and Youth in Democracy (WYDE) | Women’s Leadership project funded by the European Union and aimed at advancing women’s political participation and decision-making through social norms change, networking and global advocacy. The project is implemented together with UN Women, the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), and United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG). 

In her former role of Programme Assistant, Chiara supported International IDEA´s partnership with the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the EU in releasing a policy paper titled “Towards an enlarged union: upholding the rule of law”. This paper guided the discussions among Europe ministers at the informal General Affairs Council (Brussels, 29-30 April 2024). It provides policy recommendations to advance the rule of law and democracy within the European Union (EU) and in its enlargement policy, ensuring this way that fundamental values remain at the core of an enlarged EU.

Previously, Chiara worked on 'Swedish EU-Presidency 2023 & the Democracy Agenda: Informing & Improving Implementation of EU Democracy Policies', supported by the Swedish Government. In the framework of the Swedish Presidency of the Council of the EU (January-June 2023), the project aimed at gathering comprehensive feedback from global democracy actors to analyse the relevance and coherence of key EU external democracy policies.

Before joining International IDEA in August 2022, Chiara worked as Project Assistant at ALDA—the European Association for Local Democracy and at JEF Europe— the Young European Federalists. From October 2021 until the end of May 2022, Chiara worked at the Secretariat of the European Parliament Delegation to the Conference on the Future of Europe.