Valentina Calcagno graduated in Linguistic Sciences for International Relations with a major in Arabic language and culture in 2014 and earned her Master’s degree in International Cooperation for Development at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in 2016. In 2018 she attended the Master in “European projecting” at VIU.

From 2016 to 2018 she worked at the criminology research centre Transcrime – Joint Research Centre on Transnational Crime where she was in charge of the administrative and financial management of research projects funded by public and private entities, such as the European Commission (H2020, FP7), Cariplo and Regione Lombardia. In January 2019 she joined the Fund raising and Projects Office at Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, where she is involved in the management and financial reporting of FEEM’s funded projects and in fund raising activities.